2011 Winners

To read the winning poems, click on their titles below. You can also download the full long and short lists from the download page.

Please note that the young judges of the Poem for Children category have not yet made their final decision, but the short list is available below. We expect to have the final result within two weeks.

1 Open 1st: Day Thirty-Two - Tom Warner
2 Open 2nd: Ty bach - Clare Diprose
3 Open 3rd: The Mushroom Shed - Dorothy Yamamoto
4 Short 1st: Other People's Lives - Sallie Durham
5 Short 2nd: November - Gemma Green
6 Short 3rd: The Toe Cave - David Beanland
7 Poem for Children 1st: Dead Parrot Limerick - Sim Smailes
8 Poem for Children 2nd: Do Slugs Dance? - Kate Snow
9 Poem for Children 3rd: The Very Strange Tummy of King Alistair - Mala Doegar
10 Best Devon Poem: Side-Parting - Penny Nichols
11 Download long and short lists