Winchester Poetry Prize 2020

 

celebrating the best in new writing

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We are pleased to announce the winner of the
2020 Winchester Poetry Prize is

Lewis Buxton for his poem Field Dressing a Rabbit.

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Second Prize: Claire Collison - Little Deaths

Third Prize: Luke Palmer - Desire | Youth

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Highly Commended Poems
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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

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Commended Poems​

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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

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The prize for best poem by a Hampshire-based poet was won by
Imogen Cook for her poem Nose Piercing. 

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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.

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Winning and commended poems have been published in an anthology un-seaming the tendon which is available via our online shop.