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11th Festival of Suffolk Poetry
17 May 2025
2025 AGM: ‘Beyond Conflict’ readings
After the main AGM business, members read on the topic ‘Beyond Conflict’.
Elizabeth Bracken
I was brought up on a Suffolk Farm in the 1950’s and 60’s. Following a degree in English at Lancaster and library studies at Aberystwyth, I was a librarian in Slough and in Norfolk and Suffolk, working with children and teachers and in a prison. Inspired by winning the Crabbe Poetry Competition back in 2002,…
Philip Rösel Baker
I was born to a German mother and English father shortly after the end of the war, and grew up speaking both English and German at home. I spent my early childhood in fifties Nottingham and the remainder in Kendal in the Lake District, where I had the good fortune to have an English teacher…
2024 Crabbe Poetry Competition Winners
Luke Wright was adjudicator for the 2024 Crabbe Poetry Competition. Highly Commended Commended
Twelve Rivers Vol.15 Iss.1 Spring-Summer 2024
Vol.15 Iss.1
Festival of Suffolk Poetry History
The Festival of Suffolk Poetry began in 2014. Here is a history of poets performing at the festival.
2024 Crabbe Memorial Competition Awards Ceremony
The 2024 Crabbe Memorial Competition Awards Ceremony was held on Saturday, 5 October at Diss Methodist Church Hall. Competition Results Highly Commended Commended Competition anthologies are available in the shop.
Ben Ridley-Jones
Ben Ridley-Jones (b.1993) spent much of his childhood in the Suffolk countryside with his family which has roots stretching back centuries in the county. He read History at Cambridge before embarking on a career of public service working to address the housing and homelessness crisis in England. For many years a reader of as much…