George Crabbe Poetry Competition Anthology 2008

The 2008 competition was adjudicated by Graham Fawcett.

First Prize

• Suspended – James Knox Whittet

Second Prize

• Bus Rides with Faulkner – Mike Bannister

Third Prize

• To My Father – Kathleen Adkins

Highly Commended Poems

• In the Beginning – Nicola Walpole
• Precocious Persephone – Diana Hirst

Commended Poems

• ?Pomana – Diane Speakman
• A Moment With My Son – Fran Reader

• Chapel Field Blues – Bill Hancock
• Sonnet After Milton – Cameron Hawke Smith
• Shadows – Jen Overett
• Me and My Granny – Elaine Devlin
• Blackbird – Maggie Andrews
• Stolen Child – Frank Wood
• The Clothes My Mother Made Me – Helen Burke
• Chasing the Dragon – Florence Cox

Adjudicators’ Poems

• Sourcing – Graham Fawcett
• Making Good – Graham Fawcett