Daljit Nagra has picked Poetry Society Member Josh Ekroy for the £1000 first prize in this year’s Poems on the Move, Guernsey International Poetry Competition, for his poem ‘PSTD’. Fellow Society Member Peter Wallis was third (for ‘Rain’), with Jonathan Edwards taking second place for ‘On Hearing You Have Lost Your New Love’. Foyle Young […]

Publisher Coast to Coast to Coast have run their first competition with an unusual prize for the joint winners – a small portfolio of their poems stitched between hand made covers. The inaugural winners are Poetry Society Members Jane Lovell for Forbidden and Rebecca Gethin for Messages. Both will receive 30 hand made copies of […]

Cheryl Pearson has won the Bedford International Poetry Competition for her poem ‘Trial’, judged by Lesley Saunders, and is also shortlisted for two more poems! If that isn’t achievement enough, Cheryl was also recently third in The Interpreter’s House Prize, shortlisted for the Keats-Shelley poetry prize, and Commended in the Hippocrates Open Prize. Busy, busy! […]

Jonathan Greenhause is the Poetry Winner of this year’s Aesthetica Creative Writing Award for ‘A Poem Written In My Past Life as a 15th Century Georgian Monk’. Jonathan lives in New Jersey and is a recent winner of the Ledbury Poetry Competition and shortlisted for the Live Canon International Poetry Prize. As part of Jonathan’s […]

Poetry Society Members feature strongly in this year’s Saboteur Awards shortlists. Voting on the shortlists closes on 9 May. The Best Reviewer of Literature shortlist includes Dave Coates and former Foyle Young Poet Jade Cuttle. Martin Figura is shortlisted for his Spoken Word show ‘Dr Zeeman’s Catastrophe Machine’. In the Best Collaborative Work shortlist, Dan […]

‘The Marshes’ by Louise Warren is the winner of this year’s Prole Laureate Poetry Competition, judged by poet and editor Kate Garrett. Poetry Society Member Mary Gilonne was one of the runners-up for ‘Extra-marital morning on the edge of nowhere’ and there were Commendations for fellow Members Alicia Fernández, Harriet David, and Charles Lauder, Jnr. […]

Hannah Copley’s account of a gruelling illness during pregnancy was the inspiration for the £600 top prize in this year’s York Literature Festival / YorkMix Poetry Competition. Competition judge Andrew McMillan described Hannah’s poem, ‘Haworth, 1855’, as gripping, praising its sharp detail that takes the reader closely into the agony of the illness. The poem […]

Hearty congratulations go to Poetry Society Member Jill Munro, who has won this year’s 500 euro Ó Bhéal Five Words International Poetry Competition, for her beautifully crafted poem, ‘Ptarmigan’. Jill will be invited to read at the 11th anniversary event on 16 April 2018, along with other contributors to Five Words Vol XI. There were […]

Isabel Palmer is the winner of ‘Writing Armistice’, the Army’s Poetry Competition 2018, for her poem ‘Shell-shock’. There’s success for Poetry Society Members too. David Keyworth was 3rd in the Open Category for ‘Rearmament’,  Olga Dermott-Bond was Commended for ‘A stopping of Arms’, and Sue Norton received a Museum of Miltary Medicine Commendation for ‘Looking […]

‘Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough…’ With the opening lines of John Betjeman’s 1937 poem still casting a shadow over the literary representation of Slough, HOME Slough called out to the public to take control of their town’s future and write their own poem for Slough. The winner is Poetry Society Member Elizabeth Uter’s […]

Left to right: Natalya Anderson, Audrey Molloy, Cheryl Moskowitz and Teresa Ott There is an all-female shortlist for this year’s Moth Poetry Prize, one of the most sought after in the world for a single unpublished poem, with €10,000 awarded to the overall winner and three runner-up prizes of €1,000 by the publishers of The […]

Poetry Society Member Nicola Jackson and The Poetry Society’s very own Paul McGrane are joint-winners of this year’s Geoff Stevens Memorial Prize, judged anonymously by Ronnie Goodyer and Dawn Bauling of Indigo Dreams Publishing from over 200 entries. As a result, Nicola and Paul will have full collections published in summer 2018. Poetry Society Members […]

Poetry Society Members feature very strongly in this year’s results, with second place going to Poetry Society Member Amanda Oosthuizen for ‘Bells and Marigolds’, the Poet in Residence’s commendation going to Wendy Holborow for ‘The Seeds and Fruit of English Poetry’, and the Vice-President’s commendation going to Eithne Cullen for ‘The Poet on a Pony’. […]

Poetry Society Members Gail McConnell (above, left) and Jo Young are joint winners of Ink Sweat & Tears/Café Writers Commission. Both poets receive £2000, a published pamphlet, 100 copies of that pamphlet to do with as they wish and a reading at Café Writers in Norwich in November 2019. “With two poets, seemingly polar opposites, […]

Poetry Society Member David Wheatley joins Tara Bergin, Leontia Flynn, Conor O’Callaghan, and Mark Roper on the Irish Times Poetry Now Award shortlist. The five books chosen are are The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx by Tara Bergin (Carcanet), The Radio, Leontia Flynn (Cape Poetry), Live Streaming, Conor O’Callaghan (Gallery Press), Bindweed, Mark Roper (Dedalus […]

The 2017 Cafe Writers Open Poetry Competition, judged by Liz Berry, is Tammy Armstrong with her poem ‘Road Salt Dome’. Second and third prizes go to Poetry Society Members Elisabeth Sennitt Clough, for ‘Juno’s Augury’, and Sarah Westcott for ‘Fair Maids of February’. Among the Commended poets are Poetry Society Members Ayesha Drury, Sue Davies, […]

Congratulations to Molly Donachie who has won this year’s Sentinel Publications Poetry Book Competition 2017. As a result, Molly will have her winning collection Icarus published later this year, as will Poetry Society Members Konstandinos Mahoney (winner of The Poetry Society’s 2017 Stanza Competition) and John Lindley who were second and third respectively for Tutti […]

Poetry Society Member Jennie Carr is the winner of the Littoral Press Nature Collection Competition for A Tilt in the Year. The judge was Adrian Green, reviews editor of Littoral. “This collection is notable for its structure and understanding of nature and the interaction of people and nature. Too many nature collections leave out the influence […]

Congratulations to John Foggin and Amy Kinsman, winners of the 2017 Indigo Dreams Pamphlet Prize. Among the Commended poets are Poetry Society Members Rosie Barrett and Antony Mair (winner of  the Rottingdean Writers National Poets Competition in 2016). Indigo Dreams publish poetry pamphlets and collections, occasional anthologies and three poetry/prose magazines. They also run the […]