We are delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Morecambe Festival poetry competition, as chosen by our judge John Hegley, assisted by Rachel Pantechnicon and Francesca Beard.
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: Badger in the shopping mall Paul McDonald
Paul said, “I’m thrilled to win the Morecambe Poetry Competition. It’s nice to get acknowledgement of any kind as a poet, but a prestigious prize win of this kind is a tremendous confidence booster, particularly when judged by a poet I’ve admired all my writing life.”
2nd prize: A pink-footed goose collides with my window Alison Carter
3rd prizes:
I took my hangover for a bike ride Ed Hamilton
Pie-fi David Swann
The art of pottering David Linklater
LA3/LA4 postcode prize:
two poems share this prize:
The 90th birthday Rosemary Drescher
The toolkit Trystan Lewis
A further two poems were highly commended in the main competition. These are:
National paperclip day Stephen Watt
Neruron Count Aidan Casey
Congratulations to the following poets, who each had a piece shortlisted:
Alison Carter, Andrea Mbarushimana, Bex Hainsworth, D A Angelo, David Canning, David Chaplin, David Floyd, David Swann, Elena Croituru, Ellie Boulton, Gilly Brearley, Jane Kite, Jane Maltby, Jet McDonald, Julie Runacres, Lisa O’Hare, Lisette Abrahams, Steve Banks, Tanya Thomas.
We will add videos of the winning poems as and when we receive them.
To view the details of Morecambe Poetry Festival Competition 2024 then please click here.