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Edition 14 (2005)

PoetryPoetry collectionFirst collectionSingle poem (written)Single poem (performed)

Winners

3 people
David Harsent Excellence Award

A collection that traces memory, loss, and the shadow of violence, using mythic and religious echoes to build a dark, taut lyric landscape.

A book that compresses submerged feeling into sharp, exact language.

96 pages
memorylossviolencemyth
Helen Farish Excellence Award

A debut collection that looks closely at love, family, the body, and loss, rendering the shifting distance inside intimacy with candor and delicacy.

It holds together the closeness of touch and the hesitation that follows it.

64 pages
relationshipsbodydesireloss
Paul Farley Excellence Award

A standalone poem that captures urban disappearance and the instability of memory, letting the outlines of place and feeling surface in a brief shift of time.

A tiny shift of time is enough to unsettle the city’s memory.

citymemorydisappearancestandalone poem