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Names from Antiemetic for Homesickness
Winner of Poetry London Clore Prize
Nightingale Pledge
read by former US Poet Laureate, Track K. Smith (The Slowdown)
Group Portrait at the Stopover
(from Antiemetic for Homesickness)
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The Poetry Review, nominated for the Forward Prize Best Single Poem 2020
'The most memorable characters of the afternoon come from the poems of Romalyn Ante. - Chapter & Verse, The Manchester Literature Festival
Notes Inside a Balikbayan Box
(from Antiemetic for Homesickness)
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Ambit Magazine, nominated for the Forward Prize Best Single Poem 2020
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An inspiration to the Moved to Care exhibition of the Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum, 2026
Kayumanggi
(from Antiemetic for Homesickness)
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Highly commended in the Forward Prize Best Single Poem 2020, from (Antiemetic for Homesickness)
Ante's mixing of the small and grand scale, and her clarity of vision, are particularly impressive. - Declan Ryan on 'Rice & Rain', The Times Literary Supplement
Extraordinary poems, powerfully personal, subtly political, metaphysical.
- Voter's praise on 'Rice & Rain', Saboteur Awards 2018
Collaborations & other works
Battle Ground
East Side Voices
Pusikit
Why I Write Poetry, edited by Ian Humphreys, Nine Arches Press
To My Leaver-Mother
World Literature Today
A Natural History of Scars
The Margins Best of 2021, Asian American Writers' Workshop
GRIT
Shortlisted for the Hektoen International 'Blood' essay competition
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