2nd Prize winning poems
The Watchers
George Crabbe Poetry Competition 2025 – 2nd Prize Adjudicator: Elizabeth Cook Some impulse drew us to the pauper’s graves.Our worn-out shoes scuffed over uneven ground to stare at the simple stones of Potter’s field. We held our breath watching the soil rise upwards – tentative at first – then frantic like the fallout from wartime…
On Nostalgia for the Twilight of Cigarette Advertising in Print – Samuel Prince
George Crabbe Poetry Competition 2024 – 2nd Prize Adjudicator – Luke Wright
City state of Athens: Policy document for the preservation of the Ship of Theseus
George Crabbe Poetry Competition 2023 – 2nd Prize Adjudicator – Tamar Yoseloff
They beheaded my father this morning – Roger West
2022 George Crabbe Poetry Competition – 2nd Prize Adjudicator – Blake Morrison
Half-term Week – Eleanor J Vale
2021 Crabbe Competition – 2nd Prize Adjudicator: Anne-Marie Fyfe
Frank’s World – Jane Henderson
2020 George Crabbe Poetry Competition – 2nd Prize Adjudicator: Martin Figura
Advice from the Afterlife – Caroline Gilfillan
2019 Crabbe Memorial Competition – Second PrizeAdjudicator: Tiffany Atkinson
A Poet Showed Me Round His Violin – Anne Boileau
2018 Crabbe Memorial Competition – Second PrizeAdjudicator: André Mangeot
Crime Thriller – R.G.Binns
2017 Crabbe Poetry Competition – Second Prize Adjudicator: Esther Morgan