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.
Second Prize: Richard Evans - Murmuration
Third Prize: Laurence O'Dwyer - Garage League
Highly Commended Poems
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
Commended Poems
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.
Sponsored by Paris Smith Hampshire prize supported by Warren & Son