We are pleased to announce the winner of the
2023 Winchester Poetry Prize is

Isabelle Baafi with the poem Path Of Least Resilience

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Second Prize: Emilie Jelinek - My Father Washes His Hands Of Me

Third Prize: Yasmin Inkersole - Nefis

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Highly Commended Poems
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Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana - Skinship (a zuihitsu)

Nia Broomhall - Say Her Name Right

Pamela Crowe - Cloche

Lucy Dixcart - Summer Job

Oluwaseun Olayiwola - Animal Song

Susan E. Holland - Home

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Commended Poems​

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Django Wylie - bruised chaplains

Paul McMahon - The Demolished Exorcism Room

Stephanie Powell - Touch free wash

Luisa A. Igloria - The First Surviving Photograph of the Moon

Rachel Cleverly - Portrait of a Girl as Spinach

Janice Booth - Still Life with Flowers

Mark McGuinness - The Maze

Rachel Cleverly - The Year Prickled

Francine van den Berg - A Night At the Proms

Madeleine Wurzburger - Insect Pressed On a Page of ‘Hymn to Life’ by Nazim Hikmet

Zoë Green - Sweet Chestnuts

Cath Drake - Summer Full Moon

Julie Sheridan - Grandmother's Palindrome

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The prize for best poem by a Hampshire-based poet was won by
Joan McGavin for the poem A Long Answer To a Short Question 

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