TEIGNMOUTH POETRY FESTIVAL 2022– COMPETITION RESULTS
 
​OPEN COMPETITION

 We are delighted to announce the results of the Teignmouth Poetry Festival Open Competition 2022.  The competition was judged by Katrina Naomi, and the winning, highly commended and commended poems will be read at a special Awards Ceremony to be held at  Pavilions, Teignmouth on Saturday, 28th May.  Details of this event and other events being held on the day will be announced shortly.
 
First Prize          When blankets become bombs      -              Rosie Hadden
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Second Prize      Four minutes on the fire escape    -              Miles Salter

Third Prize         Winter                                        -              Helene Beavan
 
The three winning poems will be published on this website after the Awards Ceremony
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Highly Commended
notes made on a patio that was sprayed
with weedkiller                                                      -              Josephine Corcoran

Poem in which my dad plays pool in
a Spanish bar                                                        -              Jeanette Burton

MUSTARD                                                             -              Jim Green

Rules for Dancing                                                  -              Maria Isakova-Bennett
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Commended
You are Here                                                        -              Eleanor Walsh

How to Make a Buttonhole Hand Stitch,
3 minutes 15 seconds, Feb 21, 2018                       -              Tania Hershman   
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where no one can hear you scream                        -              Simon Tindale
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A further 14 poems were also on the shortlist:
Intimacy Coordinator                                            -              Mark Czanik 
   
Blue rice                                                             -              Helen Scadding     

Double Sarabande in 9/8 from Bach’s First Sonata 
for Solo Violin played on a railway line in Poland     -              Richard Westcott
    
There’s An App for That                                       -              Damen O’Brien
   
ICE…                                                                 -             Helen Ashley    

Some people                                                      -             Caroline Lodge   

Evening At My Window                                       -              Sue Norton   

The Social Distance                                            -              Howard Wright   

Beasts                                                              -              Nick Grundy    

The Ninth Circle                                                -              Damen O’Brien   

from the armchair of happiness                          -              Caroline Carver   

Tourist Guide Masada                                        -             Heather Steddon 
  
Bullocks                                                           -             Simon Stanley

THE GOLDFISH AT THE OPERA                          -             Christopher James
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