2024 Crabbe Poetry Competition Winners

Samuel Prince, Esther Morgan, Luke Wright, Susan Garratt

Luke Wright was adjudicator for the 2024 Crabbe Poetry Competition.

• 1st – XR – Esther Morgan
• 2nd – On Nostalgia For The Twilight of Cigarette Advertising in Print – Samuel Prince
• 3rd – Finally Taking His Used Meds Back to The Chemist – Susan Garratt

Highly Commended

• Matins – Helen Deal
• Church Shit – Stephanie Feeney

Commended

• Invalid – Rosemary Appleton
• A Gap in The Roof – Anne Boileau
• The Lark Trap – Fiona Clark
• Where Ballet Goes To Die – Stephanie Feeney
• Worn Once, Still Hanging In The Wardrobe – Susan Garratt
• Road With Pollards – Esther Morgan
• Under the Bridge – Jen Overett
• Creosote Pete – Sarah Sibley
• Telling Tales – Aruna Stannard
• Evensong – Peter Wallis
• A Lay Preacher’s Sermon – Richard Whiting
• The Degas Tree – Richard Whiting