Description
The Crabbe Poetry Competition has run continuously since 1954. This is an anthology of the prize-winning and commended poems from the 2019 Crabbe Poetry Competition.
Tiffany Atkinson was the adjudicator.
Introduction Tiffany Atkinson
Prize-Winning Poems
- The Archbishops at the Lido — Christopher James
- Advice from the afterlife — Caroline Gilfillan
- Kingfisher — Jane Henderson 4
Highly Commended Poems
- Oh Emily, What Did You Want? — John Prior
- For The Birds — Colin Hughes
Commended Poems in alphabetical order
- Mia and the Ant — Phil Baker
- Oystercatcher — R.G. Binns
- Exhibit at Southwold Museum — David Healey
- CSI — Colin Hughes
- French Doorknocker — Pam Job
- Metamorphosis —AngelaLocke
- And Sang Like Alan — Patricia Peters
- Clown’s Crossing — Caroline Price
- Eating English — John Prior
- Change — John Vaughan
- Knock at the Window — John Vaughan
- Locum (after Van Gogh) — Martyn Wainwright
- Spring Tide — Nicola Warwick
- Camera Obscura (for Andrei Tarovsky) Roger West
- Wild Swimming — Richard Whiting
Adjudicator’s Comment
- Prize Winners
- Highly Commended
- Commended
- Winners and Adjudicators 19552016
- George Crabbe – James Knox Whittet
- Suffolk Poetry Society
