Isabel Rogers has won the £5,000 Cardiff international poetry competition with her poem ‘John’s Curious Machines’. Her poetry has been published in magazines including Poetry Wales and Mslexia, and was shortlisted in the recent Charles Causley competition. She is currently working on a first collection.

Second prize of £500 was awarded to Liane Strauss for ‘It’. She is head of poetry in creative writing at Birkbeck College, University of London. KV Skene’s poem ‘This City Wades into Ontario’ won third prize of £250. Skene’s latest collection, You Can Almost Hear Their Voices, was published by Indigo Dreams in 2010. The five equal runners-up in the competition, each receiving £50, are: Angela Readman (‘The Preachers Son and the Bee Beard’; Edward Storey (‘he Only Landscape We Can Trust’; Pat Winslow (‘Con Brio’): Mandy Pannett (You Say You Don’t Do Smiles’); and Polly Walshe (‘Your Childhood’). You can find all the winning poems here