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Shelling Broad Beans – Phil Rösel Baker
George Crabbe Poetry Competition 2022 – 1st Prize Adjudicator – Blake Morrison
They beheaded my father this morning – Roger West
2022 George Crabbe Poetry Competition – 2nd Prize Adjudicator – Blake Morrison

George Crabbe Poetry Competition Anthology 2022
The 2022 competition was adjudicated by Blake Morrison. Philip Rösel Baker won First Prize with ‘Shelling Broad Beans’.
My Grandmother Visits the Father She’s Never Known (1883) – Caroline Gilfillan
2022 George Crabbe Poetry Competition – 3rd Prize Adjudicator: Blake Morrison
Crabbe Poetry Competition 2022 results
The adjudicator for the 2022 competition was Blake Morrison. Blake Morrison was born in Skipton, Yorkshire, and educated at Nottingham University, McMaster University and University College, London. After working for the Times Literary Supplement, he went on to become literary editor of both The Observer and the Independent on Sunday before becoming a full-time writer…

Walpole Old Chapel Summer Outing 2022
The annual reading at Walpole Old Chapel was held on Sunday, 12 June, on the theme of ‘Midsummer’.

Journeying – Songs and Poems of Travel
Suffolk Poetry Society with Alan Loader On 9 June 2022, members of Suffolk Poetry Society performed poems themed on journeying, with songs performed by Alan Loader based on Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel (words by Robert Louis Stevenson) and the settings of Thomas Hardy. The performance was held at Museum Street Methodist Church, Ipswich. Poets reading were:…

Twelve Rivers Vol.13 Iss.1 Spring-Summer 2022
Vol.13 Iss.1

8th Festival of Suffolk Poetry
Saturday, 14 May 2022 The 8th Festival of Suffolk Poetry was held over two days. Friday 13 May was online, and Saturday, 14 May was live at the John Peel Centre for Creative Arts in Stowmarket. The day began with workshops from Rebecca Goss and André Mangeot. Rebecca led a workshop ‘Exploring the Spectrum: The…





