Cardiff International Poetry Competition

Winners of the 2006 Cardiff International Poetry Competition

Winners: 

First Prize, £5,000: John Goodby from Swansea for The Uncles        

Second Prize, £500: Candy Neubert from Dartington in Devon for Resurrection

Third Prize, £250: Judy Brown from London for Marbles

Runners Up, winning £50 each:

Laura Helyer from St Andrews in Fife for The Heron

Sue Hubbard from London for Symmetry

Elizabeth Gowing from London for Annuraaq

Colin Sutherill from Bakewell in Derbyshire for Morgan’s Guitar Break

Carol Anne Zlotowitz from Beeston in Nottinghamshire for The Moth

Click here to read the winners press release

Winner: John Goodby

 

 The Judges

The judges for the 2006 competition were poets Adrian Mitchell and Hilary Llewellyn–Williams.

Adrian Mitchell was born near Hampstead Heath in 1932. He was educated in Hell and Heaven. After a spall on newspapers he quit journalism in the mid-Sixties. Since then he has been a free-falling writer of poems, novels, TV and stage plays for adults and children. His books of poems include Heart on the Left, Blue Coffee and The Shadow Knows (all published by Bloodaxe Books). Orchard Books publish his poems for children - Balloow Lagoon and recently Daft as a Doughnut, which was chosen by the Poetry Book Society as the best single-author collection of children’s poems in 2004. Adrian has been appointed the Shadow Poet Laureatge by Red Pepper magazine. He lives with his wife Celia and Daisy the Dog of Peace near Hampstead Heath.

Hilary Llewellyn-Williams was born in Kent, and lived in many different places before moving her home to Wales in 1982. She has been writing poetry most of her life, with her first published piece at age 11. She has won the Cardiff Literature Prize, and came joint third in the Arvon / Observer Poetry Competition in 1994. She currently works as a freelance tutor in creative writing. Her most recent poetry collection is Greenland (Seren, 2003).