Poetry Competition 2025 WINNERS!

Thank you to everyone who entered our international Single poem competition this year.
We are delighted to announce the winners. 

FIRST PRIZE

Grania Read – Goddess

 

Grania Read is an emerging poet who’s been published in Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal and whose poems have been longlisted for the Yeovil Literary Prize and the Bridport Prize. She lives in rural Shropshire and spends time visiting family in the Haute-Marne, France.
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Second PRIZE

Bevil Luck – Flawed Englynion

 

Bevil Luck was born and grew up in the Fowey Valley in Cornwall. He read English at Merton College, Oxford, before completing his doctorate on the poetry of F. T. Prince at the University of Southampton. He now lives in Oxford.

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Third PRIZE

Elizabeth Loudon – Stac an Armin

 

Elizabeth Loudon is a novelist and poet living in southwest Gloucestershire. Her debut novel A Stranger In Baghdad was published in 2023 by Hoopoe at the American University in Cairo. Her poetry has appeared in numerous reviews, and was included in Best New Poets 2025 (University of Virginia Press). When not writing, she spends as much time as possible outside. www.elizabethloudon.com

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SHORTLIST

General Zhao addresses his Daughter – Keith Chandler
Homecoming – Zoe Green
Orange – Lynnda Wardle
Recovery – Dominic Fisher
Sea Turtle, Unawatuna – Zoe Green

 

 

LONGLIST

A Brief History of Modern Music – Partridge Boswell
A Commanding View – Clive Watkins
A Rutherfordian View of Love – Gillian Dawson
After my divorce I lived in a house with a silver birch tree in the garden  – Rose Lennard
Fault Line Grammar – Topher Shields
Girl – Lucy Heuschen
Tomato Love – Di Slaney

Winning Entries

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