We're happy to announce that Kit Fan has been shortlisted for the Moth Poetry Prize!

Judged by Nobel laureate and fellow Carcanet poet Louise Glück, the award is one of the biggest prizes in the world for a single unpublished poem. Fan, whose first collection with Carcanet is published in April, was shortlisted for his poem 'Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory'.

The overall winner of the prize will be announced at a special ceremony at Poetry Ireland on 27th April. You can read the full shortlist here.

Congratulations Kit!

The Ink Cloud Reader is a disquieting collection about illness, mortality and gay marriage, set against the larger chaos of Hong Kong and our broken planet. The shape-shifting poems are sensitive to anxiety and to beauty, questioning the turbulent climate of our time while celebrating the power of ink - of reading and writing.

Fan is the author of two previous poetry collections, As Slow as Possible and Paper Scissors Stone. His debut novel, Diamond Hill, was published in 2021 and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.