Philip Burton, Lisa Megraw and Isabel Galleymore - our competition prize winners.
Teignmouth Poetry Festival 2015 is delighted to announce the winners
in our first Festival Poetry Competition.
First Prize Philip Burton Stir
Second Prize Lisa Megraw Moonlit
Third Prize Isabel Galleymore The Dragonfly
Congratulation to our winners whose poems are published here in full.
Congratulations also to our other shortlisted poets who are
Margaret Beston Timeshare
Gram Joel Davies Turn the Wheel and Look to Windward
Erika Denham-Linney Spotting
Rebecca Gethin Wahr
Mary Gilonne Papermaker.
Tania Hershman Dreams of a Tea Seller
Emily Selove In the Cairo Market
Denni Turp Agnes Smedley Teaches Communists to Dance
Simon Williams ‘You know how sleep has a smell’,
Press Release:
PRIZEWINNING POET PRAISES TOWN FOR WARM WELCOME
Teignmouth’s second Poetry Festival was voted a huge hit by an enthusiastic audience. Competition winner Philip Burton, from Lancashire, loved the town of Teignmouth too.
He commented, “I was overwhelmed by the lovely welcome my partner and I received, both before and after the prizegiving. I hope to be back next year to enjoy the whole festival. Teignmouth deserves to go from strength to strength in the poetry world.”
Second prize went to Lisa Megraw from South Wales; third was Exeter’s Isabel Galleymore. Competition judge, Penelope Shuttle, praised the standard of entries – sifting the 436 poems for the £500 first prize had been an enthralling task; her shortlist of 12 had all been of exceptional quality, imaginative and technically rewarding, she said.
in our first Festival Poetry Competition.
First Prize Philip Burton Stir
Second Prize Lisa Megraw Moonlit
Third Prize Isabel Galleymore The Dragonfly
Congratulation to our winners whose poems are published here in full.
Congratulations also to our other shortlisted poets who are
Margaret Beston Timeshare
Gram Joel Davies Turn the Wheel and Look to Windward
Erika Denham-Linney Spotting
Rebecca Gethin Wahr
Mary Gilonne Papermaker.
Tania Hershman Dreams of a Tea Seller
Emily Selove In the Cairo Market
Denni Turp Agnes Smedley Teaches Communists to Dance
Simon Williams ‘You know how sleep has a smell’,
Press Release:
PRIZEWINNING POET PRAISES TOWN FOR WARM WELCOME
Teignmouth’s second Poetry Festival was voted a huge hit by an enthusiastic audience. Competition winner Philip Burton, from Lancashire, loved the town of Teignmouth too.
He commented, “I was overwhelmed by the lovely welcome my partner and I received, both before and after the prizegiving. I hope to be back next year to enjoy the whole festival. Teignmouth deserves to go from strength to strength in the poetry world.”
Second prize went to Lisa Megraw from South Wales; third was Exeter’s Isabel Galleymore. Competition judge, Penelope Shuttle, praised the standard of entries – sifting the 436 poems for the £500 first prize had been an enthralling task; her shortlist of 12 had all been of exceptional quality, imaginative and technically rewarding, she said.