I am pleased to announce that judging has been completed, our lovely judge and award winning poet, Rosie Jackson read all entries and really enjoyed the process.
Please check out the Poetry Space Competition page to read the top three poems. Congratulations to everyone on the list and thankyou so much to all who supported this competition by sending in your poems. This is so much appreciated. Poetry Space is run for love of poetry, not for profit and any profits made help us to continue publishing new work and giving more poets the attention their work deserves. Moira Andrew’s long awaited Poet in the Kitchen is now with the printer, Kaye Lee’s debut pamphlet collection, A Gum Tree in a London Garden, came out at the end of October and several other books have been published in the last year including, Locked Down, an anthology of poems, diary extracts and artwork from the 2020 pandemic. None of it would be possible without your support.
Ist Prize
Wren – Cheryl Pearson
2nd Prize
Lute – Wendy Klein
3rd prize
In Italy – Jeff Skinner
Highly Commended
The Shape of Our Lives – Mary Anne Smith Sellen
The next day in the flat kitchen – Olivia Tuck
Commended
At a performance of Schumann’s violin concerto – Derek Sellen
The Drift – Ian Royce Chamberlain
Eating pomegranates for breakfast- Mary Gilonne
Lambs’ ears- Gill McEvoy
The fuzzy pelt is a garment without seams – Margaret Wilmott
Not numbers – Sue Kauth
Christina’s Other World- Wendy Klein
Ode to water – B.Anne Adriaens
Sweet peas – Susan Jordan
The other side of the fence – Zoe Howarth
Melt – Oz Hardwick
In the white gardens at Sissinghurst Castle – Mary Anne Smith Sellen
Seurat’s little girl – Roger Elkin
After our argument – Sharon Black
Imagining a river – Margaret Eddershaw
