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John Foggin is the winner of the inaugural Yaffle Prize with Poetry Society Member Paul Waring in second place for his poem ‘Melt’.
Fellow Members Becky Cherriman and Natalie Scott are both Highly Commended and Barbara Hickson is among the Commended poets.
Yaffle is a brand new independent publisher of poetry that aims to produce pamphlets and poetry collections of a high standard, introduce new voices and release work by established poets.
Winners list:
First Prize: What Ghosts Weigh – John Foggin
Second Prize: Melt – Paul Waring
Third Prize: First Grit 24/2 – B. Anne Adriaens
Highly Commended:
Army Brat, British Occupation – Becky Cherriman
‘Katie Gliddon’ – Natalie Scott
Commended:
‘Creation Myth: Starlings’ – Ian Harker
‘Hefted’ – Barbara Hickson
‘Dear Cynthia’ – Claire Crabtree
‘How Death Begins’ – Matt Nicholson
Congratulations to all the prizewinners!
The prize received nearly 400 poems and all poems on the following long-list will feature in the debut anthology Whirlagust.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ Claire Potter
A butterfly senses her enemy – Sallyanne Rock
A truck full of turnips – Joe Williams
And I have been thinking – Carole Bromley
Army Brat, British Occupation – Becky Cherriman
Arthur Griffiths – Natalie Scott
Beeches 48/2 – B.Anne Adriaens
Blue tits and the city – Georgina Titmus
Biological interface error – Ruth Kelsey
Boxing Day – David J Costello
Braking/Breaking Point – Oz Harwick
City in decline – Neil Clarkson
CREATION MYTH: STARLINGS – Ian Harker
Daddy – Winston Plowes
Daddy Daedalus – Pamela Scobie
Dear Cynthia – Claire Crabtree
DĂ©sir – Eithne Lannon
Fabrication. A story of creation – Howard Benn
First Grit 24/2 – B.Anne Adriaens
First Grit 64/2 – B.Anne Adriaens
Five More Minutes – Barbara Hickson
For the love of yellow – Kate O’Neil
Gingerbread – Andy Humphrey
Grace Marcon – Natalie Scott
Granny Smith remembers – Kate O’Neil
Ground Elder – Andy Humphrey
He touched me here – Kayleigh Campbell
Hefted – Barbara Hickson
Holloway Bomber – Natalie Scott
How death begins – Matt Nicholson
Imperfect Autopsy – Denni Turp
In my thinking of you – Abbie Neale
Inverdalavil – John Foggin
JEWEL CARRIAGEWAY – Ian Harker
Katie Gliddon – Natalie Scott
Le Jeu Du Destin Antique – Oz Hardwick
Masks for Emily – Kathleen Strafford
Melt – Paul Waring
Metamorphoses – Ben Ray
My Day in the Life of a Field Hare – Sarah Wallis
Neighbourhood After Sarah Green’s Assembly – Becky Cherriman
On the Early Bus – David J Costello
Poem for Huers – Christopher Lanyon
Ready or Not – Claire Proctor
RESOLUTION – Ian Harker
River – Helen Sellers
Rock and Roll 1963 – Kathleen Strafford
Roger – Carole Bromley
Sapped – John Foggin
Six Connecticut Seascapes – Adrian Salmon
Society – Joe Williams
Song thrush into a redwing – Dominic Weston
The Badger – Mark Totterdell
The Heron – Becky Cherriman
The Trouble with Toy-boys – Carole Bromley
The year of the dog – Elly White
Three Birds – Oz Hardwick
Tidy sum – Sandra Burnett
Time – Mark Totterdill
What ghosts weigh – John Foggin
5 April 2019
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