The Academi Cardiff International Poetry Competition

 2010 Cardiff International
Poetry Competition
The Winners

 

Judges
Jackie Kay and Zoë Skoulding
Filter Judge - Tiffany Atkinson

Winners:

First Prize, £5,000: Giles Goodland from London for his poem The Bees

Second Prize, £500: Jane Aspinall from the Wirral for her poem Tambourine

Third Prize, £250: Marilyn Jenkins from Llantwit Fardre for her poem Taking Delivery

Runners-up, winning £50 each:

John Leslie Brooke from Worcestershire for his poem Tswana

Naomi Foyle from Brighton for her poem Shaking the Bottle

Atar Hadari from London for his poem Two Kids

Jane Kirwan from London for her poem Lásko

Hugh McMillan from Dumfries and Galloway for his poem My Father from Extant Sources 

 

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and for details of the announcement

Click here to read the judges adjudication

 

The Judges 

Jackie Kay

Jackie Kay was born and brought up in Scotland. Her most recent collection of short stories, Wish I Was Here (Picador, 2006) won the Decibel British Book Award. She has won the Guardian Fiction Prize for her novel Trumpet (Picador, 1998), and a Forward Prize for her collection of poetry The Adoption Papers (Bloodaxe, 1991). She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Newcastle. Her most recent collection of poetry Darling, New And Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2007) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She was awarded an MBE in 2006. Her most recent collection for children, Red, Cherry Red (Bloomsbury, 2007) won the CLPE award. The Lamplighter, her long poem to commemorate the abolition of the slave trade, was published by Bloodaxe in 2008. Jackie lives in Manchester with her son.

Zoë Skoulding

Zoë Skoulding’s most recent collections of poems are Remains of a Future City (Seren, 2008), which was long-listed for Wales Book of the Year, and The Mirror Trade (Seren, 2004). Her collaborative work includes Dark Wires (West House Books, 2007) with Ian Davidson; From Here (Dusie, 2008), with visual artist Simonetta Moro; Species Corridor (Klangbad, 2008), a CD album by Parking Non-Stop, and You Will Live In Your Own Cathedral (Seren, 2009), a pamphlet of poems in German and Czech translation accompanied by a CD of poetry set to soundscape with Alan Holmes, in association with Literature Across Frontiers. She is an AHRC Research Fellow at Bangor University, where she also runs part-time courses in literature and creative writing. Zoë became Editor of the international quarterly Poetry Wales in 2008.

Tiffany Atkinson (Filter Judge)

Tiffany Atkinson is a Critic, Theorist, and lecturer in English at Aberystwyth University. She won the BBC Radio Young Poet of the Year Competition in 1993 and 1994, and the Ottakar’s and Faber Poetry Competition in 2000. Her poetry has been published in Poetry Life, Sampler and The Telegraph. Tiffany’s latest title Kink and Particle (Seren, 2006) won the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Award 2007. It is also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and was shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex New Writer’s Award. In 2001 Tiffany won the Cardiff International Poetry Competition with her poem 'Photo from Belfast'.