Sarah Howe and Nur Turkmani Win the 2026 Forward Prizes for Poetry
Sarah Howe's Foretokens took Best Collection and Nur Turkmani's debut October took the Jerwood Prize, with Tara Bergin and Biff Smith winning the single-poem awards.
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Poet; her debut collection October won the 2026 Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection. Official site: forwardartsfoundation.org/forward-prizes-for-poetry/
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