2022 Open Poetry Competition Shortlist
Congratulations to our 2022 Open Poetry Shortlisted Entries
| Black Bird-Shaped Hole | Caroline Gillespie |
| BOAT | Maggie Wadey |
| Calais Pier | Nicholas Hogg |
| Communion | Kathy Miles |
| Constructing a Rook | Kathy Miles |
| Dandelion Wine | Fiona Shillito |
| Limina | Sharon Carleen Ashton |
| Living Grief | Kathryn Bevis |
| Love Red | Isaac Quin |
| Mitchel Library | Alison Gorman |
| One of these days I’ll do like David Hockney | Paul Stephenson |
| Playground in Montenegro | SMH Davies |
| Records | Philip Baker |
| Siren Call | Emilie Jelinek |
| Strivings | David Gilbert |
| Summer Meditations | Imogen Wade |
| Sussed | John Lancaster |
| The Butterfly House | Kathryn Bevis |
| The Course of Things | Diana Cant |
| Time | Judith Drazin |
| Two Wood Pigeons | Linda Saunders |
| Unmarked Graves | Carolyn Gillespie |
| Woodpecker | Kathy Miles |
| Yarrow | Lesley Saunders |
| Your silence is all I have left | Deborah Harvey |
Tristram Fane Saunders is a journalist and commissioning editor at the Telegraph. As their poetry critic he also runs ‘Poem of the Week’.
His own poems appear in Carcanet’s New Poetries VIII: An Anthology. His current pamphlet is Woodsong and The Rake was published in May this year. He has recently edited Edna St Vincent Millay: Poems and Satires.
We are delighted to announce that the 1st prize in our International Open Poetry Competition will again this year be £1000! Second and third prizes will also remain at £500 and £250 respectively. Plus an opportunity to win a Local Prize of £100.
Entries to the Open Poetry Competition must not be longer than 35 lines. The poems can be about any subject, and must be anonymous.
Please read the Terms & Conditions carefully to ensure you entry is accepted.