EYEWEAR PUBLISHING

Wild Poppies

by Marion McCready

Funeral

by A.K. Blakemore

The Sexton Prize is an annual publication award with a $1,000 honorarium for an outstanding new collection of poetry by an American poet. The winning manuscript will be published, distributed, and marketed by Eyewear Publishing LTD in both the United States and the United Kingdom simultaneously in the Spring of 2018.

The Sexton Prize is open to poets at all career stages, from emerging to established; poets of every age and level of publication experience are encouraged to submit. Finalists will also be considered for publication.

Submissions ARE NOW open and close MAY 1, 2017. THE WINNER will be announced no later than NOVEMBER1, 2017.

The final judge for the 2017 Sexton Prize is PROFESSOR KIMIKO HAHN - a major American poet.

Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us at Eyewear Publishing!

Psalmody by Maria Apichella is full of beautiful love poems, perfect for the occasion. This is 66.

Budding by A. K. Blakemore

From Humbert Summer, winner of the 2014 Melita Hume Poetry Prize.

Humbert Summer is a book about the febrile matter of fantasy in its rawest form – alternately subversive, awkward, romantic and unsettling. Written between the ages of sixteen and twenty-three, the poems in A. K. Blakemore’s debut full-length collection navigate the challenging space between adolescence and (abortive) adulthood in a culture quick to dismiss, commodify or fetishise the female body and imagination.