TEIGNMOUTH POETRY FESTIVAL
POETRY COMPETITION 2021
POETRY COMPETITION 2021
Competition Results
We are delighted to announce the winners and commended poems for this year’s poetry competition. It has been a bumper year for entries, well done to everyone. The Covid19 pandemic has meant that we have been unable to hold our annual March Teignmouth Poetry Festival, but we are hoping to be able to have a mini festival in October.
In the meantime we shall be celebrating with our judges, competition winners and commended poets in a Zoom event on 25th May 2021 at 7.30pm.
If you would like to attend please email poetryteignmouth@griem.co.uk
Open Competition Winners – Judged by Helen Ivory
First Prize Rosie Jackson - Light Makes it Easy
Second Prize Elena Croitoru - The Last Wedding
Third Prize Jo Haslam - When auntie was a crow
Full text of the winning poems will be published here after 25th May
Commended in alphabetical order:
Jean Atkin - Monsters
Chrissy Banks - Eine Kleine Nacht Musik
Ruth Beddow - What have I built
Tina Cole - What I told the Wren
Ken Evans - The White-Out
Pamela Job - Embarkation
Graeme Ryan - Look At Monday
Click here for Helen Ivory’s full adjudication of all shortlisted poems
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Local Competition Winners – Judged by Alasdair Paterson
(This year for the first time our Local competition has covered the whole of Devon)
First Prize Sue Proffitt - Bubble
Second Prize Angela Howarth-Martinot - Me and Robin in the garden
Third Prize Helen Scadding - Apple Crumble
Full text of the winning poems will be published here after 25th May
Commended in alphabetical order
Frances Corkey Thompson - Sly Music
Hélène Demetriades - A visit from my mother
Hélène Demetriades - Chez Madame Frise
Jan Nicholls - Junction
Elisabeth Rowe - Pursuit
Marc Woodward - Grace Notes
Marc Woodward - Heat
Click here for Alasdair Paterson’s full adjudication of all shortlisted poems
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In the meantime we shall be celebrating with our judges, competition winners and commended poets in a Zoom event on 25th May 2021 at 7.30pm.
If you would like to attend please email poetryteignmouth@griem.co.uk
Open Competition Winners – Judged by Helen Ivory
First Prize Rosie Jackson - Light Makes it Easy
Second Prize Elena Croitoru - The Last Wedding
Third Prize Jo Haslam - When auntie was a crow
Full text of the winning poems will be published here after 25th May
Commended in alphabetical order:
Jean Atkin - Monsters
Chrissy Banks - Eine Kleine Nacht Musik
Ruth Beddow - What have I built
Tina Cole - What I told the Wren
Ken Evans - The White-Out
Pamela Job - Embarkation
Graeme Ryan - Look At Monday
Click here for Helen Ivory’s full adjudication of all shortlisted poems
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Local Competition Winners – Judged by Alasdair Paterson
(This year for the first time our Local competition has covered the whole of Devon)
First Prize Sue Proffitt - Bubble
Second Prize Angela Howarth-Martinot - Me and Robin in the garden
Third Prize Helen Scadding - Apple Crumble
Full text of the winning poems will be published here after 25th May
Commended in alphabetical order
Frances Corkey Thompson - Sly Music
Hélène Demetriades - A visit from my mother
Hélène Demetriades - Chez Madame Frise
Jan Nicholls - Junction
Elisabeth Rowe - Pursuit
Marc Woodward - Grace Notes
Marc Woodward - Heat
Click here for Alasdair Paterson’s full adjudication of all shortlisted poems
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JUDGE - OPEN COMPETITION - HELEN IVORY
Helen Ivory is a poet and visual artist. Her fifth Bloodaxe collection is The Anatomical Venus (May 2019). It was shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards, and won the 2019 EDP, East Anglian Writers ‘By the Cover Award.’ She edits the webzine Ink Sweat and Tears and is a tutor for UEA/NCW online creative writing. Fool’s World, a collaborative Tarot with Tom de Freston (Gatehouse Press) won the 2016 Saboteur Best Collaborative Work award. A book of mixed media poems Hear What the Moon Told Me is out from KFS and a chapbook Maps of the Abandoned City appeared from SurVision Press in 2019. As part of Versopolis 2020, she has a chapbook of poems translated into Polish and also one in Ukrainian.
Helen Ivory is a poet and visual artist. Her fifth Bloodaxe collection is The Anatomical Venus (May 2019). It was shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards, and won the 2019 EDP, East Anglian Writers ‘By the Cover Award.’ She edits the webzine Ink Sweat and Tears and is a tutor for UEA/NCW online creative writing. Fool’s World, a collaborative Tarot with Tom de Freston (Gatehouse Press) won the 2016 Saboteur Best Collaborative Work award. A book of mixed media poems Hear What the Moon Told Me is out from KFS and a chapbook Maps of the Abandoned City appeared from SurVision Press in 2019. As part of Versopolis 2020, she has a chapbook of poems translated into Polish and also one in Ukrainian.
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JUDGE - LOCAL COMPETITION -ALASDAIR PATERSON
Alasdair Paterson’s most recent collections are Elsewhere Or Thereabouts (Shearsman Books 2014), My Life As A Mad King (Oystercatcher 2016) and Silent Years (Flarestack Poets 2017). Born in Edinburgh, he began writing poetry in Liverpool in the 1970s and won an Eric Gregory Award in 1975, later taking a 20 year sabbatical from poetry before starting to write again after retiring from university life. He lives in Exeter, where he organizes and presents the monthly Uncut Poets reading series.
Alasdair Paterson’s most recent collections are Elsewhere Or Thereabouts (Shearsman Books 2014), My Life As A Mad King (Oystercatcher 2016) and Silent Years (Flarestack Poets 2017). Born in Edinburgh, he began writing poetry in Liverpool in the 1970s and won an Eric Gregory Award in 1975, later taking a 20 year sabbatical from poetry before starting to write again after retiring from university life. He lives in Exeter, where he organizes and presents the monthly Uncut Poets reading series.