Winchester Poetry Prize 2020
celebrating the best in new writing
We are pleased to announce the winner of the
2020 Winchester Poetry Prize is
Lewis Buxton for his poem Field Dressing a Rabbit.
Second Prize: Claire Collison - Little Deaths
Third Prize: Luke Palmer - Desire | Youth
Highly Commended Poems
Virginia Astley - The horses are wrapped in their blankets, steaming
Lewis Buxton - Wrestling
Ellena Croitoru - Fish Bones by Candlelight
Oli Isaac - tender as in easier to chew
Simon Middleton - Men at the Antenatal Class
Claudine Toutoungi - Lazarus
Commended Poems
Barry Coidan - Angie's Party
Imogen Cook - Nose Piercing
Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana- Kotoshi mo yoroshiku
Ken Evans - Static in The Café
Simon French - Pedigree
Matthew Griffiths - ‘Nice hat,’
Matthew Haigh - The Colour of Death is Desert Peach
Nicki Heinen - Summer at the Hospital
Selima Hill - Rabbits
Tamsin Hopkins - Knuckles
Genevieve Stevens - Gossipers on the South Western
James McDermott - They Could Be Having Sex
Simon Middleton - Picture the Bull
Mary Mulholland - Still life
Serge ♆ Neptune - For Every Queer They Kill a Merman is Born
Paul Stephenson - Birkenstocks
Ben Verinder - The impossibility of a sex poem
Susie Wilson - Everyone Who Comes To My Funeral Must
Fathima Zahra - O Rey Chhori
The prize for best poem by a Hampshire-based poet was won by
Imogen Cook for her poem Nose Piercing.
The winners were announced at a special online prize-giving event on Saturday 10 October 2020. The event is available to view via our Video library.
Winning and commended poems have been published in an anthology un-seaming the tendon which is available via our online shop.