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Not the Not the Booker

Rules

1. Submit your nominations as a reply to this Twitter post beginning 1: NOMINATIONS.

 

2. Two nominations are permitted per person.

 

3. All nominations must be received by midnight on 22nd August 2018. The administrators reserve the right to change this date (and other voting-deadline dates) without any notice whatsoever, either to extend the period or, if things are getting out of hand, to stem the ungodly tide of freely-expressed public opinion.

 

4. Only full-length collections of poetry first published in the UK between 1st October 2017 and 31st September 2018 are eligible. No selecteds/collecteds, reissues, anthologies. No pamphlets: these are already admirably awarded by the wonderful Sabotage Awards.

 

5. A longlist of around 50 books will be formulated and tabulated, according to the number of nominations each book receives. We'll put the list up on this site.

 

6. A shortlist of 10 collections will then be selected from the longlist by public vote. Each voter must vote for three books, which must be from three different publishers. Votes are to be added to the comments thread beginning 2. LONGLIST. Voting will close at midnight on the 15th September 2018.

 

7. The winner will be chosen by public vote from readers who submit a tweet-length review of their chosen title. Add your vote as a mini-review to the thread beginning 3. SHORTLIST. Please use as many of the tweet’s 280 characters as you can, but refrain from spilling into a thread. The review-voting stage will close at midnight at the end of 12th October.

 

8. The winner will be announced on the 14th October 2018 at some point. Probably not very early in the morning.

 

9. There will be NO prize, probably. Maybe we’ll buy the winner a drink, or something similar? Maybe a signed copy of their own book. Who knows. But probably nothing.

 

10. Administrators reserve the right to do basically anything we want: this isn’t a proper competition. Please don’t take it too seriously (although the administrators recognise that telling the poetry community not to take anything at less than life-or-death levels of seriousness is an utter folly).

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