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

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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