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Winchester Poetry Prize 2023

celebrating the best in new writing

We are pleased to be able to announce that the following poems have been selected by our judge Zaffar Kunial as the longlist for the 2023 Winchester Poetry Prize.

JANICE BOOTH: Still Life with Flowers

ISABELLE BAAFI: Path of Least Resilience

NIA BROOMHALL: Say Her Name Right

RACHEL CLEVERLY: Portrait of a Girl as Spinach

RACHEL CLEVERLY: The Year Prickled

ALEXANDRA CORRIN-TACHIBANA: Skinship (a zuihitsu)

PAMELA CROWE: Cloche

LUCY DIXCART: Summer Job

CATH DRAKE: Summer Full Moon

ZOË GREEN: Sweet Chestnuts

SUSAN E. HOLLAND: Home

LUISA A. IGLORIA: The First Surviving Photograph of the Moon

YASMIN INKERSOLE: Nefis

EMILIE JELINEK: My Father Washes His Hands of Me

JOAN McGAVIN: A Long Answer To a Short Question

MARK McGUINNESS: The Maze

PAUL McMAHON: The Demolished Exorcism Room

OLUWASEUN OLAYIWOLA: Animal Song

STEPHANIE POWELL: Touch free wash

JULIE SHERIDAN: Grandmother's Palindrome

FRANCINE VAN DEN BERG: A Night At the Proms

MADELEINE WURZBURGER: Insect Pressed On a Page of ‘Hymn to Life’ by Nazim Hikmet

DJANGO WYLIE: bruised chaplains

The winners will be announced live at a special prize-giving event on Sunday 15 October 2023 at the ARC  as a part of the Winchester Poetry Festival 2023.

 

All are welcome to attend the prize-giving. Places are free but should be booked

Winning and commended poems will also be published in an anthology which will be published on the day and is available to pre-order via our online shop.

 

                                                                     

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