Each of the 24 poem titles below links to its own page. 108 poets entered 230 poems. Members of The Artists’ Quarter have illustrated the Winning and Commended poems; browse the complete, free eBook here. A second eBook (pdf) brings together the shortlisted poems. Every poem also has its own page on this website (links below).
1st prize £300
Heather Freckleton for the poem Red on Bone
2nd Prize £200
Ruth Irwin for The Greenfinch in the Garden
3rd Prize £100
Sandra Burnett for For the Record
Highly Commended
A K S Shaw for Prince of Thieves
Jane Boxall for Swimmers
Jenny Shaw for Whitsunday Ghosts
Commended
Donald Adamson A Good Drowning
Andy Fawthrop Cactus
Tina Cole Glimpse
Al McClimens In the Wake of Brave Ulysses
Virginia Griem Lonely Horse Lane
Sarah H Edwards My Father’s Hand
Sean Robinson The Tomato, the Time and the Tube
Barry Woods Toy Train
Shortlisted*
*As well as the individual web pages for shortlisted poems (links below) they also appear together in a pdf entitled “Well booger me gently!”. Download here: gently
Andy Craven-Griffiths Coming Back Again
Gaby Turner Confessions of a Paparazzo
Barry Woods Fighting Fantasies
Ian Royce Chamberlain Glass Cage
Liz Diamond Lucky
Anthony Watts On King’s Square
Tim Binder Transit of Venus
Sean Robinson Underground lines
Alexia Avina Why I Let You Brush My Hair
Diane Jackman Mystery
Background: the rules and details can still be accessed here.
