This year’s competition was another great entry – well over 400 poems giving the judges the usual really difficult task of selecting only three prize winners. Indeed they decided to nominate three poems as Highly Commended (this is a first for the competition) as an indication of exactly how hard it was. Many thanks to everyone who entered, and many congratulations to the winners and runners-up.
NB Winning poems and the judges’ report will be posted on this page very soon – some of the poets concerned are away on holiday and so unable to make the necessary checks.
Joy Howard
Winners:
First Prize
The Wide Field
Maria Jastrzᶒbska (read poem)
Second Prize
A Job To Do
Gill Learner (read poem)
Third Prize
Topografisk
Elsa Fischer (read poem)
Highly Commended
Later Gill Nicholson
Thin Air Elisabeth Rowe
Peggy Eveline Pye
Also Shortlisted
Material Differences Helen Matthews
Screen Pat Borthwick
Life Story in Eight Sentences Diane Jackman
Owl Woman Caroline Carver
A Meissen Serving Boy Remembers Gill Learner
Lord Randal Redux: the Back Story Janice Soderling
Quiet Things Janice Soderling