Winners List

To see the winners of our twenty competitions, the highly commended and read the judges’ comments, scroll down and use the links below. After twenty years of running the most respected poetry contest in Wales, we have decided to hang up our boots. The website will continue (with blog posts) and serve as an archive of the great poetry and great poets we helped discover, promote and celebrate.

We also have our four anthologies available, containing 400+ winning poems from the competition.

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Past Winners

Here is a list of our winning poets (and all previous winners/judges’ comments)

2026 – kerry rawlinson – Kokanee, Spawning | The 2026 Competition

2025 – Mark Lewis – Notes from a transported convict | The 2025 Competition

2024 – Gill Learner – Once upon a time | The 2024 Competition

2023 – Jenny McRobert – Pegasus Rising | The 2023 Competition

2022 – Jennifer Hetherington – Cross Words | The 2022 Competition

2021 – Estelle Price – iii | The 2021 Competition

2020 – Sheila Aldous – The Debt Due | The 2020 Competition

2019 – Damen O’Brien – The Map-Makers Tale | The 2019 Competition

2018 – Judy Durrant – Prayer To A Jacaranda | The 2018 Competition

2017 – Rae Howells – Airlings | The 2017 Competition

2016 – Tarquin Landseer – Blackfish | The 2016 Competition

2015 – Mick Evans – Map makers | The 2015 Competition

2014 – Kathy Miles – The Pain Game | The 2014 Competition

2013 – Josie Turner – Rations | The 2013 Competition

2012 – Sally Spedding – she wears green | The 2012 Competition

2011 – David J Costello – Horseshoe Bat | The 2011 Competition

2010 – Sally Spedding – Litzmannstadt 1941 | The 2010 Competition

2009 – John Gallas – the origami lesson | The 2009 Competition

2008 – Emily Hinshelwood – Visually-speaking | The 2008 Competition

2007 – Gavin Price – Concrete | The 2007 Competition