1st Prize winning poems
Wild Man of Orford – Lizzi Thistlethwayte
George Crabbe Poetry Competition 2025 – 1st Prize Adjudicator – Elizabeth Cook
XR – Esther Morgan
George Crabbe Poetry Competition 2024 – 1st Prize Adjudicator – Luke Wright
Grace Poole’s version – Nicola Warwick
George Crabbe Poetry Competition 2023 – 1st Prize Adjudicator – Tamar Yoseloff
Shelling Broad Beans – Phil Rösel Baker
George Crabbe Poetry Competition 2022 – 1st Prize Adjudicator – Blake Morrison
Colony Collapse Syndrome – Nicola Warwick
2021 Crabbe Competition – 1st Prize Adjudicator: Anne-Marie Fyfe
Memory House – Elizabeth Cook
2020 Crabbe Poetry Competition – 1st Prize Adjudicator: Martin Figura
The Archbishops at the Lido – Christopher James
2019 Crabbe Memorial Competition – First PrizeAdjudicator: Tiffany Atkinson
Chamber Organ – Caroline Price
2018 Crabbe Memorial Competition – First Prize Adjudicator: André Mangeot
Swallow – Jim Green
2017 Crabbe Memorial Competition – First Prize Adjudicator: Esther Morgan