Wells Festival of Literature
International Poetry Competition
2009
List of Short-Listed Poems and Poets in random order
The short-listed poems were kindly judged by the Poet Andrew Motion
The short-listed poems are in a random order
Click here to read more about Andrew Motion
Click here to read the winning poems
|
Names |
TOWN |
Poem |
Prize |
| Ronald Tamplin |
Debussy: in a Breton Church |
First | |
| Penny Ayres |
Granny at My Age |
Second | |
| Daphne Schiller |
A Crack in the Glass |
Third | |
| Rachel Williams |
Contact Visit |
Wyvern Prize | |
| Hilly Cansdale | Wells | Midwinter | |
| Michael Binnie | Srebenica | ||
| David Grubb | When nuns play football they cheat | ||
| Jo Field | Skin | ||
| Pat Borthwick | Sylvia Louise | ||
| Freda Cave | Earth Fish | ||
| Graham Anderson | The National doggerel archive | ||
| Lyn Roberts | Actaeon and Diana and Entropy and the Maiden ( 2 poems) | ||
| Richard Jones | Schooling | ||
| Elizabeth Rowe | Human Writes | ||
| Marilyn Wood | A haven for John Clare | ||
| Philip Sandy | Gretel in Berlin | ||
| TSD Osborne | Singleness | ||
| Georgia CarysWilliams | Descending upwards | ||
| Guy Hunter | Life Class and Sex Education (2 poems) | ||
| Anna Wigley | The Owl | ||
| Stevie Krayer | Sign and wonders | ||