Troubadour Poetry Prize 2012
Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2012: some of our prizewinners at Troubadour Prize Night on Mon 3rd Dec 2012 (l to r) Gillian Laker, Helen Overell, Gerrie Fellows, Caroline Smith, Richard Douglas Pennant (Cegin Productions), Anne-Marie Fyfe, Bernard O’Donoghue (judge), Betty Thomson, Nicky Arscott, Jane Draycott (judge), Judy Sutherland, Vanessa Gebbie, Judy Brown and Paul Stephenson (see poems below, along with 2007-2011 winners/poems and London New Poetry Award 2010 winner)
Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2012
Sponsored by Cegin Productions
The following prizewinning poems were chosen by judges Jane Draycott and Bernard O’Donoghue who read along with winning poets at our annual prizegiving event at the Troubadour on Monday 3rd December 2012:
- First Prize, £2500: ‘Immensi Tremor Oceani’, Vanessa Gebbie, East Sussex
- Second Prize, £500: The Teenage Existential, Paul Stephenson, London
- Third Prize, £250: Explaining the Plot of ‘Blade Runner’ to my Mother who has Alzheimer’s: C.J. Allen, Notts
and, with prizes of £20 each:
- Horse As Accordion, Nicky Arscott, Powys
- A Tale from the Town Maze, Mike Barlow, Lancaster
- East 17th Street or How I Met My Husband, Mara Bergman, Tunbridge Wells
- The Third Umpire, Judy Brown, London
- The Ledge, Miles Cain, York
- Brood, Claudia Daventry, St. Andrews
- The Language of Memory (The Bees), Gerrie Fellows, Glasgow
- Lost, Rebecca Goss, Liverpool
- When Jesus Played the Piano, David H.W. Grubb, Henley-on-Thames
- Woman on a Cliff, Peter Gruffydd, Bristol
- X-Ray Vision, Alex Josephy, London
- Woolpit Child, Gillian Laker, Kent
- October 1962, Shelley McAlister, Yarmouth
- Burning the Clocks, John McCullough, East Sussex
- HazMat, Dawn McGuire, Orinda, California
- A Psalm for the Scaffolders, Kim Moore, Barrow in Furness
- The Mercedes, Helen Overell, Surrey
- The Scarlet Lizard, Caroline Smith, Rickmansworth
- Underworld, Judi Sutherland, Berkshire
- Peter Doig’s Studio, Betty Thomson, Co. Wexford