2025 Crabbe Poetry Competition Winners

Lizzi Thistlethwayte, Fran Reader, Pam Job, Elizabeth Cook

Elizabeth Cook was adjudicator for the 2025 Crabbe Poetry Competition.

• 1st – Wild Man of Orford – Lizzi Thistlethwayte
• 2nd – The Watchers – Fran Reader
• 3rd – The Mathematical Mind of the Lady of Walsingham – Pam Job

Highly Commended

• The Days Grow Short – Anne Boileau
• Equinox – Richard Whiting

Commended

• On Hearing Morning Birdsong – Melinda Appleby
• Waiting for a Poem – Melinda Appleby
• Housemaid – Fiona Clark
• The Village Surgery – David Healey
• On Wivenhoe Quay – Pam Job
• Transition – Fran Reader
• The Leafhouse Keeper – Lizzi Thistlethwayte
• the telling – Eleanor Vale
• Cuthbert and the Otters – Nicola Warwick