Our Readers’ notes on the 2020 Shortlist help individual readers and poetry reading groups read their way through the shortlist, with poems, discussion ideas, background on the poets, reviews of their books and suggestions for other poets you might enjoy.
Natalie Diaz – Postcolonial Love Poem (Faber & Faber)
Sasha Dugdale – Deformations (Carcanet Press)
Ella Frears – Shine, Darling (Offord Road Books)
Will Harris – RENDANG (Granta Poetry)
Wayne Holloway-Smith – Love Minus Love (Bloodaxe Books)
Bhanu Kapil – How to Wash a Heart (Pavilion Poetry)
Daisy Lafarge – Life Without Air (Granta Poetry)
Glyn Maxwell – How the hell are you (Picador Poetry)
Shane McCrae – Sometimes I Never Suffered (Corsair Poetry)