South Bank Poetry Competition Winners
1 ST PLACE
‘Lost in Locks’ by Virginia Astley
2 ND PLACE
‘The Faber Book of Sewage’ by David Swann
3 RD PLACE
‘Deptford and the Tsar’ by Joan Byrne
4 TH PLACE
‘Ghostlike’ by Andrew Geary
5 TH PLACE
‘Mistress Finch’s Tale, 1681’ by Brian Docherty
COMMENDED POEMS
‘Desire Path’ by Jude Rosen
‘The Barred List at the Half Moon, Herne Hill’ by Janine Booth
‘Slough, A Reply to Sir John Betjeman in Heaven’ by Martin
Bennett
‘9 for 65: Muttiah Muralitharan Bowls at the Oval’ by Sarah
Gibbons
‘On Landing G3’ by Alwyn Marriage
Judge Mimi Khalvati’s report to follow shortly
40+ poems from Mimi’s longlist will be published alongside the
winning and commended poems in a special anthology issue of
SBP.
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