The Forward Book of Poetry, an anthology of the best poems from 2024, includes poems from The Bedford Competition judges:

Rishi Dastidar, 2024 and 2025 Cygnature Poetry judge.
Fran Lock, 2025 Main Poetry judge.

Also several of our competition entrants are in the collection:

Damen O’Brien – Winner in 2022
Vanessa Lampert -Third Place in 2021 and shortlisted in 2020

We congratulate them and are proud to have our judges and poets represented in the most influential awards for new poetry published in the UK and Ireland.