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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.