We are delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Morecambe Festival poetry competition, as chosen by our judge Jackie Kay. The competition was open to poems on any theme, and we received a huge number of poems from across the UK and around the world.
The winners.
1st prize: No Magi these John Lancaster
2nd prize: Gran Ed Hamilton
3rd prizes:
A hundred wild centuries Becky May
Counting bleats David Bleiman
Midwinter birth Alison Tanik
Picking okraby Alison Tanik was also highly commended in the main competition.
LA3/LA4 postcode prize:
The Amazon gene Rosemary Drescher
LA3/LA4 postcode runners-up
Lightspeed Warren Mortimer
O Romani Warren Mortimer
Uthai Sawan nursery massacre Rosemary Drescher