Mabrouk, congratulations to our winners! 🏆

Since we had so many strong entries for the Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Ecstatic Poetry Prize, of almost 500 poems, it was so hard to select a top three that we created a standalone category of Highly Commended poems!

We had so many moments of being taken into Imaginal ecstatic worlds, and brought back into the tender, human realm of love and longing, that have made this process a true privilege. A huge thank you to all the poets who entered! 
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Keep an eye out for the announcement of a live online gathering to hear the winning poems read, and the chapbook of the Longlist to be published by Lote Tree Press. With much gratitude for our judges Baraka Blue and Sukina Noor.
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FIRST PRIZE

Gathered by Daniel Thomas Dyer

SECOND PRIZE

Rawdah Realities by Nazeera Mohamed

THIRD PRIZE

Who by Yousef Alzalabany

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Take Me With You by Tariq Elsaid

On Bearing Witness by Abeer Ameer

Light by Sara Nelson Anruyu

After the Murmuration by Tony Bowland

Pantoum for Neverending Light by Sarwat Rami

Sunlight Ghazal by Asiye Betül

The Ecstasy of Witnessing by Idris Mears

SHORTLISTED

The Song of Love by Asma Iftikhar

Antique Prayer Rug by Faisal Mohyuddin

As Many As by Ray Lacina

The Most Important Lesson of Fatherhood Has Been Theological
by Jamal Mehmood

Witness by A. H. Fitzwilliam-Hall

Bahr by Nadia Hassan

The Miraculous Letter by Brian Anthony

On Writing a Poem by Sumaiyah Mohamed

Conversations with a Saint by Ameera Aslam

Abiding Forever by Zinnira Shaikh