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Isabel Galleymore 2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award First Prize

Isabel Galleymore
2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award First Prize

May 5, 2016
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The Limpet & the Drill-Tongued Whelk Across the rockpool floor, a limpet grazes – a stray magician’s cup, moon-textured, the shape of light pointing through…

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Jake Campbell 2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Second Prize

Jake Campbell
2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Second Prize

May 5, 2016
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‘Love’, not ‘Pet’ (Saltney Melancholy) Cutting the engine at St Deiniol’s, it’s 8.45 and the sun has just dragged itself out of slumber. Same place…

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Elvire Roberts  2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Third Prize

Elvire Roberts
2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Third Prize

May 5, 2016
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Please click on the image below to read the poem

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Alice West 2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Young Person’s Prize Winner, 15 – 19

Alice West
2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Young Person’s Prize Winner, 15 – 19

May 5, 2016
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10 ways to crack an egg With our smallest hands it ends like this: Crumpled, a bewildered face, sticky fingers Or Running from a height,…

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Michelle Fae D Souza 2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Young Person’s Prize Winner, 15 – 19

Michelle Fae D Souza
2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Young Person’s Prize Winner, 15 – 19

May 5, 2016
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Flip Side I am awake. I open my watery eyes Trapped. I am not What I wanted to be. I am Lost. I am no…

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Tommy Irons 2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Young Person’s Prize Winner, 15 - 19

Tommy Irons
2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Young Person’s Prize Winner, 15 – 19

May 5, 2016
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NGC 6302 “There’s a small line of justification where one can want and one can need, but if one can (and has the ability to)…

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Ella Saville 2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Young Person’s Prize Winner, 14 and Under

Ella Saville
2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Young Person’s Prize Winner, 14 and Under

May 5, 2016
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The Magic Box I will put in the box… The gentlest wave made by the underwater god, Stone from the oldest pyramid And the biggest…

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Yazzi Gokcemen  2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Young Person's Prize Winner, 14 and Under

Yazzi Gokcemen
2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Young Person’s Prize Winner, 14 and Under

May 5, 2016
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Shadows in the urban smoke They grow from the gravel. Twisted and distorted monsters; Determined for their glass talons and brick fists to be the…

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Isabel Watson 2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Young Person's Prize Winner, 14 and Under

Isabel Watson
2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Young Person’s Prize Winner, 14 and Under

May 5, 2016
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  At Portland Bill   We wait with baited breath and then we gasp in awe for the roar of the waves overpowers us all….

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