Description
The Crabbe Poetry Competition has run continuously since 1954. The 2020 competition was held during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, and was adjudicated by Martin Figura.
Introduction — Martin Figura
Prize-Winning Poems
- Memory House — Elizabeth Cook
- Frank’s World — Jane Henderson
- Lament for a Lewis Crofter — Mike Bannister
Highly Commended Poems
- Critical Care — David Healey
- Young Birds — Tim Lenton
Commended Poems in alphabetical order by poet
- Halcyon — Sally Baker
- she is on her way — Alexandra Davis
- Isle of Man Internees — Caroline Gilfillan
- Lichen Seen through a Magnifying Glass — Caroline Gilfillan
- Paced — David Healey
- Return to Southwold — Christopher James
- The Brickie’s Prayer — Rob Lock
- Harvesttime — Oliver Nemes
- Learning How To Fix a Lamp — Kennedy Osborne 16/17 Weaving fresh weft over old warp — Fran Reader
- Latin Lovers — Margaret Seymour
- Titian puts down his paintbrush and picks up a guitar — Roger West
- That Perfect Feeling — Richard Whiting
Adjudicator’s Comment
- First Prize
- Second/Third Prize
- Highly Commended
- Commended
- Winners and Adjudicators 19982019
- Suffolk Poetry Society
- George Crabbe — James Knox Whittet
