The 2026 Book & Pamphlet Competition Celebration: An online reading

Join us as we celebrate the winners and commended poets in the 2026 International Book + Pamphlet Competition. With live readings from the winners, runners-up and highly commended poets. Hosted by Poetry Business co-directors Ann and Peter Sansom.

This evening is also the final deadline for our two current competitions: The Poetry Business 40th Anniversary Collection Competition and the 2027 Pamphlet Competition. Enter here while there's still time!

2026 International Book + Pamphlet Competition

The Winners:
Derval Tubridy
Tom Weir

Runners Up:
Ellie Grant
David Hale

Highly Commended Poets:
Susannah Hart
Paul Stephenson

Find out more about all these wonderful poets here.

Derval Tubridy's and Tom Weir's prize-winning pamphlets are available to order on the Poetry Business website here.

Accessibility:

This event will use live auto-captioning. As the event is live-streamed, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of these captions. Correct closed-captions will be added to the Youtube video once the livestream is saved and re-uploaded. We will also provide a link to a Google document with poem text.

Please do get in touch with us via email (office@poetrybusiness.co.uk) if you have any concerns or queries about the accessibility of this event.