The 2001 competition was adjudicated by Anne Beresford.
First Prizes
- Locke’s Orchard – Ross Cogan
Second Prize
- Earth Sings the Touch of Time – Christopher North
Third Prize
- Asylum Seeking – Gerard Melia
Commended Poems
- Visitations – John Watts
- Sight and Mind – Florence Cox
- Owls – Helen Burke
- Stay Right Where You Are
- Searching for Mother – Jill Dawson
- Still Alive – Mary Powles
- ‘No.’ – Marie Metcalfe
- Journeys – Julian Stannard
The Hardiman-Scott Award
for Young Poet of the Year
- Big Issue Lady – Abbie Todd
- Leaves – Lisa Clarkson
- Hidden Past – Toby Hough