Kei Miller, who won the Forward prize for best collection with The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion, has been named on this year’s Costa poetry prize shortlist. Last year’s Forward prize winner, Michael Symmons Roberts, also won the Costa poetry prize.  Other poets are this year’s Costa poetry shortlist are Colette Bryce, The Whole and Rain-domed Universe (Picador); Jonathan Edwards,  My Family and Other Superheroes (Seren); and Lavinia Greenlaw (A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde (Faber & Faber). 

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