The Forward prizes are much touted as the richest poetry awards around. And although their combined price tag of £16,000 wouldn't raise eyebrows among fat cats, they provide valuable recognition for both new and established British poets.

Our own editor Sarah Crown is on the judging panel, and has had her mind slightly skewed by a fortnight of intense and exclusive poetry reading - read about her insatiable cravings for fiction here.

Today, they announced the shortlist. It includes Luke Kennard - at 26 he's the youngest poet ever nominated for the best collection category. And the slate for the best single poem includes the stunning Dunt by Alice Oswald, whose collection Dart won a TS Eliot prize in 2004.

But who else deserved to be on there? The winners will be announced on National Poetry Day in October, so there's plenty of time to post your own verdict here on the shortlist below:

Best collection prize (£10,000)

Domestic Violence by Eavan Boland (Carcanet) Gift Songs by John Burnside (Jonathan Cape) The Drowned Book by Sean O'Brien (Picador) Birds with a Broken Wing by Adam Thorpe (Jonathan Cape) The Harbour Beyond the Movie by Luke Kennard (Salt Publishing) Beasts of Nalunga by Jack Mapanje (Bloodaxe)

Best first collection prize (£5,000)

Twenty Four Preludes and Fugues on Dimitri Shostakovich by Joanna Boulter (Arc Publications) Galatea by Melanie Challenger (Salt Publishing) Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra (Faber and Faber) Andraste's Hair by Eleanor Rees (Salt Publishing)

Best single poem prize (£1,000)

The Hut in Question by David Harsent (Poetry Review) Thursday by Lorraine Mariner (The Rialto) Dunt by Alice Oswald (Poetry London) The Day I Knew I Wouldn't Live Forever by Carole Satyamurti (The Interpreter's House) Goulash by Myra Schneider (The North) The Birkdale Nightingale by Jean Sprackland (Poetry Review)