Crabbe Poetry Competition Anthology 2024

Contents

1st – XR – Esther Morgan

2nd – On Nostalgia For The Twilight of Cigarette Advertising in Print – Samuel Prince

3rd – Finally Taking His Used Meds Back to The Chemist – Susan Garratt

Highly Commended

• Church Shit – Stephanie Feeney
• Matins – Helen Deal

Commended

• Worn Once, Still Hanging In The Wardrobe – Susan Garratt
• A Lay Preacher’s Sermon – Richard Whiting
• The Degas Tree – Richard Whiting
• Where Ballet Goes To Die – Stephanie Feeney
• Invalid – Rosemary Appleton
• The Lark Trap – Fiona Clark
• A Gap in The Roof – Anne Boileau
• Road With Pollards – Esther Morgan
• Evensong – Peter Wallis
• Telling Tales – Aruna Stannard
• Creosote Pete – Sarah Sibley
• Under the Bridge – Jen Overett