Competitions

Previous Results

• ‘Christmas Tree’

  

  • Winners
  • CP Nield – ‘Our Book Tree’
  • Gail Lawler – ‘Gown of Needles’
  • Jeanette Burton – ‘The Owl in the Christmas Tree’
  • Molly Thapviwat – ‘Inheritance’
  • Olga Dermott-Bond – ‘Once Upon a Christmas Eve’
  • Polly Walshe – ‘Needled’
  • Rhona Stephens – ‘Just Keep Walking’

  • Shortlist
  • Aruna Stannard
  • Carole Bromley
  • DA Prince
  • Helen Heery
  • Jane Burn
  • Oliver Comins
  • Olivia Walwyn
  • Penny Sharman
  • Rob Walton
  • Sarah Doyle
  • Sophie Bathurst
  • Vanessa Lampert

• ‘Light’

  

  • Winners
  • DA Prince – ‘Sea-light’
  • Jane Burn – ‘Telling My Child About Light’
  • Laura Theis – ‘craving’
  • Nairn Kennedy – ‘Fire Fox’
  • Penny Sharman – ‘Foxfire’
  • Rachel Jeffcoat – ‘Desire Lines’
  • Rosie Jackson – ‘Magdalene and the Flame’
  • Shasta Hanif Ali – ‘Things that hold light’
  • Stephen Keeler – ‘Flametree’

  • Shortlist
  • DA Prince (two poems)
  • Elizabeth Tyson-Doneley
  • Emma Simon
  • Giles Watson (three poems)
  • Isabelle Thompson
  • Jane Burn
  • Karan Chambers
  • Kate O’Neil
  • Kerry Darbishire
  • LB Jørgensen
  • Laura Theis (two poems)
  • Leah Larwood
  • Lisa Falshaw
  • Maria Isakova-Bennett
  • Martyn Crucefix
  • Nairn Kennedy (three poems)
  • Nora Nadjarian
  • Penny Sharman (two poems)
  • Rachel Jeffcoat
  • Rosie Jackson
  • Shasta Hanif Ali
  • Stephen Keeler
  • Sue Burge
  • Vanessa Napolitano

• ‘Holidays’

  

  • Winners
  • Beth McDonough – ‘Right now,’
  • Carole Bromley – ‘Postcard from Athens’
  • Claire Lynn – ‘That Moment’
  • Jeanette Burton – ‘My dad orders four drinks on the Greek island of Zakynthos, 1987’
  • LB Jørgensen – ‘Tea House Trekking’
  • Pete Taylor – ‘a walk with daughters at Merthyr Mawr’
  • Polly Walshe – ‘Holiday Rental’
  • Sarah Ziman – ‘The Guest Book’
  • Stephen Payne – ‘Salobreña’

  • Shortlist
  • Ali Rowland
  • Angela Topping
  • Beliz McKenzie
  • Carole Bromley
  • DA Prince
  • Giles Watson
  • Isabella Mead
  • Jane Simmons
  • Janet Dean
  • Jayne Stanton
  • Jeanette Burton
  • Kath McKay
  • LB Jørgensen
  • Nairn Kennedy
  • Penny Sharman
  • Regina Weinert
  • Ruth Sharman
  • Vanessa Napolitano

• ‘Christmas Walk’

  

  • Winners
  • Annie Kissack – ‘Winter Gathering’
  • Aoife Mannix – ‘Walk With Me in December’
  • Bill Adair – ‘Intimate Pavements’
  • Charlotte Oliver – ‘Unboxed’
  • Giles Watson – ‘The Caldon Canal’
  • Jane Burn – ‘The Snow, the Path, the Moon, the Leaf’
  • Kerry Darbishire – ‘Christmas Landscape’
  • Marie-Louise Eyres – ‘Christmas Walk – A Snow Cento’
  • Martyn Crucefix – ‘Fleecy Disney Christmas snowflakes’
  • Miriam Wei Wei Lo – ‘Quick Trip to the Beach Before the Early Service’
  • Penny Sharman – ‘Boxing Day walk when Lili loved us all, 2001.’
  • Valerie Bence – ‘A low owl at Christmas’

• ‘Wonky Animals’

  

  • Winners
  • Leah Larwood – ‘The zoo in my cellar’
  • Linda France – ‘Sighting’
  • Rob Miles – ‘To listen for a mouse’
  • Sophia Argyris – ‘Fox names the world’

  • Highly Commended
  • Amber Rollinson – ‘Who could see a tiger’
  • Carole Bromley – ‘Curiosities and Cavorts’ and ‘Smitten’
  • Hannah Stone – ‘Lessons for late-brood hoglets’
  • Johnnie Sparkle – ‘Red dog blues’
  • JLM Morton – ‘Love Song for Ewe’
  • Mel Pryor – ‘What the herdsman said’ and ‘Sanctuary’
  • Nora Nadjarian – ‘Snailology’
  • Sarah Ziman – ‘Little Wing’
  • Victoria Gatehouse – ‘Conversation with the Mole’

• ‘Kindness’

  

  • Winners
  • Olga Dermott-Bond – ‘small change’
  • Zoë Green – ‘Some Words from my Imaginary Friend, Jeff’

  • Shortlist
  • Ali Rowland
  • Chitra Kalyani
  • Frances Thompson
  • Harriet Truscott
  • Jane Burn
  • Jennifer Clark
  • Louise Greig
  • Michelle Diaz
  • Paul McDonald
  • Phoebe Robertshaw

• ‘Almanac 2023’

  

  • Winners
  • Laura Theis – ‘Ode to June’
  • Liz Kendall – ‘Samoa, October’
  • Rae Howells – ‘February Song Thrush Repeats’
  • Sam Goundry Butler – ‘Mrkgnao’
  • Sarah Ziman – ‘Cam Ceiliog’
  • Victoria Gatehouse – ‘The Hawthorn Bride’

  • Shortlist
  • Ben Wilkinson
  • Caroline Gill
  • Dale Booton
  • Jen Feroze
  • Kerry Darbishire
  • Lucy Dixcart
  • Lucy Ingrams
  • Marie-Louise Eyres
  • Nicolette Golding
  • Regina Weinert
  • Sue Burge

• ‘Christmas Stories’

  

  • Winners
  • Stephanie Norgate – ‘Christmas Present’ (Postcard Prize)
  • Victoria Punch – ‘While the three wise men dreamed’ (Pamphlet Prize)

  • Highly Commended
  • DA Prince – ‘Hearth’
  • Louise Greig – ‘Conversation between a fox and a fir tree’
  • Meghan Kemp-Gee – ‘Christmas Eve in the Fox Fur Nebula, 2700 lightyears away’
  • Nicola Healey – ‘Imprint’
  • Sarah Dale – ‘A Christmas tree’s story’

  • Shortlist
  • Alex Josephy
  • Amlanjyoti Goswami
  • Annie Kissack
  • Helen Bowell
  • Jeremy Wikeley
  • Katherine Venn
  • KS Moore
  • Laura-Jayne Ireton
  • Liz Kendall
  • Margaret Adkins
  • Marian Griffin
  • Mary Mulholland
  • Sara Boyce
  • Steve Page
  • Sue Norton
  • Victoria Pickup

• ‘Together for Christmas’

  

  • Winners
  • Bill Adair – ‘The Carol of the Stable’
  • Christina Buckton – ‘Born This Happy Morning’
  • Corinna Keefe – ‘Christmas Dinner’
  • Jeanette Burton – ‘Boxing Day at My Grandparents’ House’
  • Robert Hamberger – ‘Playing Love Hangover While Washing Up’

• ‘Getting Older’

  

  • Winners
  • Alasdair Paterson – ‘Hop’
  • Elvire Roberts – ‘Kintsugi’
  • Mark Granier – ‘Colonoscopy’

  • Highly Commended
  • Cheryl Pearson
  • Clint King
  • Jacquie Shanahan
  • Marianne Jones
  • Tina Cole

  • Shortlist
  • Akwe Amosu
  • Alison Campbell
  • Anya Trofimova
  • Ben Wilkinson
  • Bernie Crawford
  • Bob Cooper
  • Christine Macfarlane
  • Consuelo Marshall
  • DA Prince
  • Darrell Hugueley
  • Deborah Harvey
  • Fiona Ritchie Walker
  • Gita Ralleigh
  • James Heaney
  • Jeffa Kay
  • Jill Sharp
  • Jo Field
  • Julian Turner
  • Massey Armistead
  • Michael Ray
  • Olga Dermott-Bond
  • Pamela Butler
  • Robert Hamberger
  • Sarah Grout
  • Stephen Keeler
  • Vanessa Lampert
  • Vic Pickup

• ‘Snow’

  

  • Winners
  • Lucy Jeynes – ‘Snow Day’
  • Joanne Key – ‘for the love of snow’
  • Meda AA Stamper – ‘The Symmetry of Snow’

  • Highly commended
  • Kerry Darbishire
  • Gill McEvoy
  • Jill Munro

  • Shortlist
  • Beliz McKenzie
  • Claire Lynn
  • Christopher James
  • Hannah Stone
  • Hilary Robinson
  • Jeanette Burton
  • John Foggin
  • Nicola Warwick
  • Pat Childerhouse
  • Polly Walshe
  • Rhiannon Hooson
  • Sarah Ziman
  • Tom Sastry

• ‘Breakfast’

  

  • Winners
  • Catherine Edmunds – ‘Breakfast with Mother’
  • Olga Dermott-Bond – ‘Toaster’
  • Phil Houghton – ‘Before the Lark’

  • Shortlist
  • Christopher James
  • Claire Lynn
  • Hannah Stone
  • Hilary Robinson
  • Jeanette Burton
  • John Foggin
  • Nicola Warwick
  • Pat Childerhouse
  • Polly Walshe
  • Rhiannon Hooson
  • Sarah Ziman
  • Tom Sastry

• ‘Clouds’

  

  • Winners
  • Lesley Saunders – ‘Hazy, Massed, Dappled’
  • Sarah Westcott – ‘Flight’

  • Highly Commended
  • Caroline Hammond – ‘Cloud Content’
  • Christopher James – ‘The Cloud Collector’
  • Jeanette Burton – ‘Musings on Board Spacecraft Oasis 1’
  • Jonathan Davidson – ‘Clouding Over’
  • Louise Greig – ‘Cloud Souls’
  • Michael Brown – ‘Cloud Break’
  • Miriam Calleja – ‘8.04pm’
  • Shirley Anne Cook – ‘Nudging Clouds’

• ‘Micropoem’

  

  • Winner
  • Roz Goddard

  • Highly Commended
  • Maria Taylor
  • Matthew Paul

  • Runner-ups
  • Jeanette Burton
  • Karen Jane Cannon
  • Polly Atkin
  • Maree Jaeger
  • Stephen Daniels