CRWROPPS POST: €10,000 Moth Poetry Prize - just over 6 weeks left to enter

'And as light as the rain seems, it still rains down on you' Claudia Rankine There are just over 6 weeks left to enter The Moth Poetry Prize 2019 The Moth Poetry Prize is one of the biggest prizes in the world for a single unpublished poem, with a first prize of €10,000, and three very significant runner-up prizes of €1,000.  We're looking for poems that create their own climate, and yet offer a kind of instant recognition, poems that resound with emotional intelligence, poems that are tuneful, playful, truthful, poems that speak of our times and yet are timeless. We're not looking for poems that impress, but that impress upon the reader their own necessity in the world. The prize is open to entries from new and established poets alike, from anywhere in the world. Past winners have gone on to be shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem and Best First Collection. The prize is judged anonymously by a single poet. This year the judge is the inimitable American poet Claudia Rankine. The four shortlisted poems will appear in the spring issue of The Moth 2020 (which also happens to be our 10 year anniversary issue) and the four shortlisted poets will be invited to a special award ceremony at Poetry Ireland in Dublin on 30 April 2020. DEADLINE: 31 DECEMBER 2019 Read more