Candlestick Press
Competitions
- 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’
Previous Results
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‘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
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‘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
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‘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
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‘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’
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‘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’
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‘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
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‘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
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‘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
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‘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’
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‘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
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‘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
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‘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
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‘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’
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‘Micropoem’
- Winner
- Roz Goddard
- Highly Commended
- Maria Taylor
- Matthew Paul
- Runner-ups
- Jeanette Burton
- Karen Jane Cannon
- Polly Atkin
- Maree Jaeger
- Stephen Daniels