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

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