George Crabbe Poetry Competition Anthology 2006

The 2006 competition was adjudicated by Andrea Holland and Neil Powell.

First Prize

• Hail Stones in Texas – Andrew Frolish

Second Prize

• The Singing Stone – For Helen – Mike Bannister

Third Prize

• The Domain – Jill Eulalie Dawson

Commended Poems

• Seduction – Maggie Andrews
• On Mount Etna – Polly Clarke
• “Nothing to Celebrate” Advent – Miranda Hamilton
• Contemplation – Penny Hemens
• Basal Metabolic Rate – Sandra Hinton
• Empty – Gerard Melia
• March Magnolia – Wendy Partridge
• I am a Seaside Town – Claire Rowland
• At Gainsborough’s House – Joan Sheridan-Smith
• A Long Case – John Watts

Adjudicators’ Poems

• Hundred River – Neil Powell
• Dusk in the Surrey Hills – Neil Powell
• Serendipity – Andrea Holland
• Pastime in the Park – Andrea Holland