Cardiff International Poetry Competition

2012 Cardiff International Poetry Competition

The 2012 Cardiff International Poetry Competition First Prize-winner will walk way with a cheque for £5,000 for just one poem. Further prizes available are £500 for second place, £250 for third plus five runners up will receive £50 each. The hard tasking of judging the 2012 competition is down to poets Sinéad Morrissey, Patrick McGuinness and filter judge Samatha Wynne-Rhydderch.

The 2012 competition is now closed;
no further entries will be accepted.
Winners will be announced in June/July 2012.

For further details contact Literature Wales:
029 2047 2266 / post@literaturewales.org

The Cardiff International Poetry Competition is administered by Literature Wales with the financial support of Cardiff Council.

The Judges:

Sinéad Morrissey is a multi-award winning author and has published four collections of poetry including, There was Fire in Vancouver (Carcanet, 1996), Between Here and There (Carcanet, 2002) and The State of the Prisons (Carcanet, 2005). Her most recent collection Through the Square Window (Carcanet, 2009) was a PBS Choice, was shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection and was awarded the Irish Times Prize for Poetry. In 2007 her poem ‘Through the Square Window’ took first place in the UK National Poetry Competition. Sinead is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University, Belfast.

Patrick McGuinness’ collections of poetry include, The Canals of Mars (Carcanet Press, 2004) and Jilted City (Carcanet, 2010), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and appeared on the 2011 Wales Book of the Year Long List. He is a frequent contributor to The London Review of Books and his work has appeared in a variety of journals and magazines including, Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, New Welsh Review, Poetry Wales and Agenda. Patrick’s debut novel, The Last Hundred Days (Seren, 2011), was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford.

Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch has published two collections, the second of which, Not in These Shoes (Picador, 2008) was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2009. Her work has been published in Poetry Wales, Poetry London, Poetry Ireland, The Independent and the Forward Anthology 2002 and 2009 as well as broadcast on BBC Radio Wales and Radio Scotland. Samantha grew up in New Quay, Ceredigion where she still lives.