George Crabbe Poetry Competition Anthology 2022

The 2022 competition was adjudicated by Blake Morrison.

First Prize

  • Shelling Broad Beans – Philip Rösel Baker

Second Prize

  • They beheaded my father this morning – Roger West

Third Prize

  • My Grandmother Visits the Father She’s Never Known (1883) – Caroline Gilfillan

Highly Commended Poems

  • Hotel Alexandra – Ian Colin
  • Grey – André Mangeot

Commended Poems

  • Reading to Paul – Philip Rösel Baker
  • We Called Him Captain Hook – Anne Boileau
  • Lubricity – Stewart Francis
  • Death Mask – Sue Garratt
  • Underwood Hardware & D.I.Y Ltd – David Healey
  • Orpheus – Jane Henderson
  • Pylon – Graham J High
  • The Piano on the Northern Line – Christopher James
  • Snake Charm – Pam Job
  • Learning the Language – Pat Jourdan
  • Tailbone – Esther Morgan
  • I turn my face – Jen Overett
  • College Versus Knowledge – Cro Page
  • Missing Brilliance – Fran Reader
  • To the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Turbines – Margaret Seymour
  • like a sonnet – Roger West
  • Backflip – Tessa West
  • Essex Girls – Judith Wozniak

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