2023 Crabbe Poetry Competition Winners

The winners of the 2023 Crabbe Poetry Competition were selected by Tamar Yoseloff.

First Prize

Grace Poole’s Version – Nicola Warwick

Second Prize

City State of Athens: Policy document for the preservation of the Ship of Theseus – Roger West

Third Prize

La brucatura – Steph Ellen Feeney

Highly Commended Poems

Bridal Pair with Eiffel Tower                                         Marc Chagall – Pat Jourdan

Bookworm – Peter Sandberg

Mushrooming – Eleanor Vale

Commended Poems

We promised to write – Steph Ellen Feeney

Using googledictate when his hands could no longer type and speech was proving difficult – Sue Garratt

Demeter’s Footprints – Jane Henderson

Saint Veronica Reads the News – Pamela Job

The Emperor Hadrian to his soul – Cro Page

The Penetration of Built-Up Areas by Aerosols At Night – Samuel Prince

The Flame-haired Girl Who Drives the Gritter – Peter Sandberg

The Passion – Margaret Seymour

Kentucky Morning On a Porch – Tim Waller

Bed of Onions – Peter Wallis

Self portrait, fired in clay. – Nicola Warwick

Chacun à son Mimosa – Roger West

Invasion – Will Ingrams