A community of poets based in the Enfield area.
First Prize
Second Prize
Ghazal: for Reem by Janet Hatherley
Third Prize
The following poets and their poems were Commended
Catherine Moore with Manchild
Catherine Drake with What they Say
Michael Thomas with All the Light
We thank our judge, David Constantine. David Constantine born 1944 in Salford, Lancs, was for thirty years a university teacher of German language and literature. He has published a dozen volumes of poetry – most recently (2014) Elder; two novels, Davies(1985), The Life Writer (2015); and five collections of short stories. He is an editor and translator of Hölderlin, Goethe, Kleist and Brecht. For his stories he won the BBC National and the Frank O’Connor International Awards (2010, 2013). The film ’45 Years’ was based on his story ‘In Another Country’. With Helen Constantine he edited Modern Poetry in Translation, 2003-12.