Poetry on Fire: The Liquid Amber Prize Anthology – PREPUB OFFER

Catch the spark! The 2026 Liquid Amber Poetry Prize invited poets to take up the challenge of the theme ‘Poetry on Fire.’ Like poetry itself, fire can be exciting, useful, edgy, moody, dangerous. Fire can brighten and warm – and, out of control, it can burn and destroy. It might be a flair of the heart, sustenance of the hearth, illuminations of the imagination, or cataclysms of the environment.

This anthology has the 53 poems of the Longlist of the Prize, including the winners. These poems explore all these themes – some flames are literal, some metaphoric – and speak their respective truths, across their diversity, with directness and conviction.

Will be shipped in October