Cardiff International Poetry Competition

Winners of the
2009 Cardiff International Poetry Competition

Judges
Ian McMillan and Kurt Heinzelman

 
Winners:

First Prize, £5,000: Jane Routh from Lancaster for her poem The Gift of Boats

Second Prize, £500: Christopher Simons from Essex for his poem Pink Dog

Third Prize, £250: Emily Berry from London for her poem Strange Fish

Runners-up, winning £50 each:

Marianne Burton from London for her poem Owls at Midnight

Laila Farnes from Nittedal, Norway for her poem Wild Ice

Stephen Moore from Liverpool for his poem The Bride

Philip Tomkins from Cardiff for his poem And Suddenly the Bitch is Talking Poetry

Pat Winslow from Oxfordshire for her poem The Man who Kept Bees in his Beard

 

Click here to read the winners press release
and for details of the announcement

Click here to read the judges adjudication
 

 The Judges

Ian McMillan

 

Ian McMillan has been a poet, broadcaster, commentator and programme maker for over 20 years. He’s poet in residence at Barnsley Football Club, Northern Spirit Trains and Humberside Police and was one half of Barnsley’s first folk/poetry duo, Jaws. Ian currently presents his weekly show, The Verb, on BBC Radio 3 as well as writing weekly columns for The Yorkshire Post and The Barnsley Chronicle. Ian also fronts the Ian McMillan Orchestra. His publications include, Perfect Catch (Carcanet Press, 2000), Dad, the Donkey’s on Fire (Carcanet Press, 1994), The Invisible Villain (Macmillan Children’s Books, 2002), The Very Best of Ian McMillan (Macmillan Children’s Books, 2001) and Chelp and Chunter: How to talk Tyke (Collins, 2007). His verse autobiography Talking Myself Home (John Murray Publishing) is due out in October 2008.

Kurt Heinzelman

Kurt Heinzelman co-founded and for ten years edited the award-winning journal The Poetry Miscellany; he is currently Editor-at-Large for the Bat City Review as well as Editor-in-Chief of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL). He has been a multiple nominee for the Pushcart Prize; his first two books of poetry, The Halfway Tree (2000) and Black Butterflies (2004), were both finalists for Poetry Book of the Year from the Texas Institute of Letters. A scholar and translator, he also serves on the Board of Directors of the Dylan Thomas Prize in Swansea, Wales. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Susan Sage Heinzelman.

Filter Judge: Tiffany Atkinson