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    Winchester Poetry Prize 2018

     

    celebrating the best in new writing

     

    We are pleased to announce the winner of the
    2018 Winchester Poetry Prize is
    Inua Ellams for his poem Plight/Fantasy.

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    Second Prize: Richard Evans - Murmuration

    Third Prize: Laurence O'Dwyer - Garage League 

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    Highly Commended Poems

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    Rachel Curzon - Jardin des Tuileries

    Michael Fraser - Mary Fields

    Rosie Jackson - An Anchorite Laments the Destruction of her Cell in
    Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries, 1537

    James O'Hara Knight - Lessons with Lilith

    Cheryl Pearson - Collecting the Eggs

    Katrina Porteous - Cubby

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    Commended Poems

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    Eric Berlin                   

    Isabel Bermudez        

    Alan Buckley              

    Sue Chamberlain              

    Harriet David             

    Hugh Dunkerley

    Alan Dunnett        

    Inua Ellams           

    Niall Firth                      

    Clifford Forde  

    Nicki Heinen         

    Stephen Keeler 
    Joanne Key         

    Ruth McIlroy           

    Paul McMahon          

    Margot Myers            

    Mara Adamitz Scrupe  

    Ellora Sutton        

    Futility the Beautiful

    Serenade

    Clocks

    Remember Those Lessons You Made Me Go To

    Eelcakes

    Rite

    Witch

    Soldier / Ants

    Faith

    The Letter Writer

    Three Short Poems for Music

    Imbolc

    The Dream Life of Mr Woodbine

    A Meant Thing To Tell

    The Night-Birds

    29 Ratcliffe Highway

    a birder’s cacophony/ kettle lake and moraine

    Remains

    The prize for best poem by a Hampshire-based poet was won by Rachel Curzon for her poem 'Jardin des Tuileries'.

     

    All of the winning and commended poems are published
    in the competition anthology, The Blaze in Father's Breath which can be purchased from our online shop.

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       Sponsored by     Paris Smith                            Hampshire prize supported by  Warren & Son

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