Ian Duhig to pick £1,000 Cafe Writers winner
Ian Duhig will be the sole judge of Norwich-based Cafe Writers’ £1,000 open poetry competition, which has a 30 November deadline. Second prize is £300, 3rd is £150, and there are six commended prizes of £50. Entry fee is £4 per poem, £10 for three poems and £2 per poem thereafter. Other prizes are £100 for funniest poem not winning another prize, and £100 to the best poem from a permanent Norfolk resident not winning another prize. More details. Ian Duhig has won the National Poetry Competition twice, and also the Forward Prize for Best Poem. His latest collection Pandorama (Picador) is a Poetry Book Society recommendation.
Greg Freeman
Mon 14th Jan 2013 16:56
These are the competition results sent to us by Cafe Writers. Congratulations to all!
Results
1st Marie Naughton (Manchester) Brain, £1,000; 2nd Jane Monson (Cambridge) Beam of Light, £300, 3rd Colette Sensier (Norwich ) I Have My Mother’s Eyes, £150. Norfolk pPrize: Tim Munsey (Norwich) Wetland, £100; Funniest: Tim Clare (Norwich) Mango, £100
Commended, £50 each: Rosemary Norman (London) Juggler; Cathy Bryant (Manchester) Summer Rain and Such Fol-de-rol; Ian Dudley (Oxford) To Rest; Amali Rodrigo (Mumbai) I Think of a Very Large Mechanical Mouth; Vahni Capildeo (Oxford) Mercy & Estrangement;
Jonathan Beale (Middlesex) Easily Forgot
Here is Marie Naughton’s winning poem:
Brain
Glistens in a pool of saline. Delicately eased
from case of bone. Pale as any shell dweller,
blind creature, unaccustomed to light. Colour
of river clay, oyster mushrooms, yeast. Runnelled
as a walnut. Ferns, curled, at the moment
of unfurling. Clusters of bladderwrack.
Bobbled pearls. Universe in a bulb or corm.
Truffle slivers, indigo- and amber-stained.
Cauliflower floret, sliced. Row of winter poplars.
Shale tideline, telltale gap.
Limestone landscape, clints and grikes.
The prizegiving will take place on 11 February at Take 5, Tombland, Norwich NR3 1HF. It begins at 7.30pm, with readings by judge Ian Duhig and major prizewinners.