RESULTS
Our eminent judge Michael Longley has made his decisions and The Winners are…..
1st Prize £1000 Rae Howells for ‘The Winter-King’
2nd Prize £500 Mark Roper for ‘Owl’
3rd Prize Ty Newydd Course Jane Wheeler for ‘Lark’s Song for a Deserted Farmhouse’
Additional Prize A Walk with Mark Cocker, Susan Mobbs for ‘Mirabelles’
Additional Prize a Walk with Nick Davies, Alexandra Davis for ‘Old Lady Moth’
The Five Prize Winning Poems will be published in Issue 91 of The Rialto
Our grateful thanks to Ty Newydd, Mark Cocker and Nick Davies for the hugely generous contributions to the list of prizes. And thanks also to our partners RSPB, Birdlife International, and Cambridge Conservation Initiative, and of course special thanks to Michael Longley.
Michael’s list of Highly Commended poets and poems follows
‘Mother of the Sea’ by Eveline Pye
‘Second Law of Thermodynamics’ by Petra Regent
‘Portrait of a Poem with a Painting in it’ by Maitreyabandhu
‘Mainis’ by Katherine Duffy
‘The Bittern’ by Sarah Wimbush
‘Teasel’ by Linda France
We’re pleased that once again we have raised a decent sum of money for conservation.
READING
There will be a reading at CCI on June 14 with Michael Longley and the winning poets.
For full details and to buy tickets please click the button on the right.
Long Listed entrants
To view the long list please click the tab below.
Please note the long list is not a list of all entrants.
Long listed entrants.
| Rowan | Alesha Racine |
| Old Lady Moth | Alexandra Davis |
| Harvest | Andrew Forster |
| Bombus Bombus | Angela Beese |
| What Happens to your Heart | Anna Selby |
| Sea Cucumbers | Anna Selby |
| Broiler, Male | Anna Selby |
| Goshawk | Anthony Lawrence |
| Intimacy | Anthony Lawrence |
| The Seven Sisters | Anthony Watts |
| Skylark on Stackpole Head | Chris Rice |
| 3.5 miles, slight ascent | Christine Webb |
| Sleeping Birds | Damon Moore |
| Apparition | David Clarke |
| You didn’t tell me | David Gilbert |
| The Emperor’s Clothes | Doina Percival |
| The Deer | Dom Bury |
| What if birds only sang when listened to | Elizabeth Zetlin |
| Mother of the Sea | Eveline Pye |
| the hare we found | Frith Taylor |
| Montbretia | Gabriella Attems |
| A River Ought To Be | Gail Anderson |
| The Haul | Garry MacKenzie |
| Belving | Giles Goodland |
| Herb of the Sun | Gill Learner |
| Understory | Ginny Saunders |
| Mollscroll | Hannah Linden |
| The Grey Seal Speaks | Helen Pletts |
| Feather | Ian Royce Chamberlain |
| Thread the Copse | Jane Burn |
| Cockthorpe samhain | Jane Wheeler |
| Larks’ song for a deserted farmhouse | Jane Wheeler |
| The Swifts | Jim C Wilson |
| Gulls | John Hancock |
| Birds of a feather | John Maguire |
| Turnstones | Judith Shaw |
| The Life of Trees and the Childless | Julie Maclean |
| Maínis | Katherine Duffy |
| Bugs | Katie Hale |
| Teasel | Linda France |
| Paterfamilias, Grey | Louise G Cole |
| Returning to Paumanok | Lydia Kennaway |
| Green World | M E Muir |
| Portrait of a Poem with a Painting in it | Maitreyabandhu |
| Feather | Majella Cullinane |
| Fox Studies | Mariah Whelan |
| The Red Admiral in Thirteen Movements | Marilyn Hammick |
| Spring ready | Mark Haworth-Booth |
| Owl | Mark Roper |
| Night Thoughts | Mary Cresswell |
| Moa’s Advice to the Kakapo | Mary Cresswell |
| Tests | Mary Woodward |
| In Green Ink | Meredith Hadaway |
| Two Trees | Michael Sharp |
| Comma | Ms S Riley |
| Blue Damselfly | Nicola Warwick |
| My Welsh Hilll | Pat Edwards |
| Writing with Emily Dickinson | Patricia Helen Wooldridge |
| The Future Tense | Patricia Helen Wooldridge |
| Iron Anniversary | Paul Jeffcutt |
| Zebra Foal in Tesco Car Park | Paul Stephenson |
| Bird Photographer | Paul Stephenson |
| Second Law of Thermodynamics | Petra Regent |
| How we Changed the Rivers | Pippa Little |
| Catastrophic fire danger level 6 | Rachael Mead |
| river dove | Rachel J Fenton |
| River Aire | Rae Howells |
| The winter-king | Rae Howells |
| No Better Than She Should Be Red | Ramona Herdman |
| That fourth morning of autumnal sun …. | Roger Elkin |
| When My Wife is a Hazel Tree | Rosamund Taylor |
| The Bittern | Sarah Wimbush |
| Kookaburra-shooting, Dwellingup WA | Sharada Keats |
| Mindscape with Asiatic Hornet’s Nest | Sue Kindon |
| Mirabelles | Susan Mobbs |
| Anemones | Vasiliki Albedo |
| What Emily Remembers About Her First Trip To The Zoo | Veronica Aaronson |
| To Kill a Spider | Wendy Klein |
