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WE ARE DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE

THE WINNING AND LONGLISTED POEMS

WITH NAMES

FOR THE YAFFLE PRIZE 2023

 

FIRST PRIZE:

 

Those dead woman’s clothes in the wardrobe – Natalie Scott

 

SECOND PRIZE:

 

Running from the Train – Bobbie Sparrow

 

THIRD PRIZE:

 

Lessons from Walking – Hannah Stone

 

HIGHLY COMMENDED:

 

That Lies Beneath – Sandra Noel

A Fine Romance – Oz Hardwick

 

 COMMENDED:

 

It will happen by chance – Mary Gilonne

Snow Falls – Sue Butler

Crossing the Tees – Bob Beagrie

Atrial Fibrillation – Pen Kease

LONGLISTED POEMS:

26th April, 1986 - Cassandra Parkin

À Bientôt - Su Ryder

Allotment - Mark Totterdell 

Alice in Theatreland, Birmingham, 1947 - Sheila Jacob

Aphelion - S Reeson

Asylum - Colin Day

Away From it All - Sharon Larkin

Bad March - Ian Malcom Parr

Birthday - Patrick Druggan

Brum - Sarah Russell 

Diagnosis - Liz McPherson

Emergency lighter - John Devlin

Empty Hours - Tina Cole

 Episodic Memories - Deborah Gaudin

Felt Tip Pen - Pat Edwards 

 Feral Parakeet - Elspeth McLean

First Warm Day - Ann Heath

Florence - Anne Eccleshall

Fur - Sue Mackrell

Gin, Zero, Daughter: One - Bobbie Sparrow

Horse and Chariot Burial at Pocklington - Penny Blackburn

How Does it Feel? - Julie Stevens

How Nature Reveals Her Force - Maggie McKay

Hydrophilic - Sarah Watkinson 

Inner City Wind - Terry Simpson

In Praise of Sunbeam and Others - Caroline Gilfillan

JimaWill - Cathy Baker

Lutra - Tim Ellis

Life Drawing - Sue Butler

Move Closer -Lucy Heuschen

Night Lines - Lynn Valentine

Oncology for Beginners in Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital - Mary Gillone

One Way to Eat a Mango - Ann Heath

Persephone Comes Home - Alison Jones

Prismatic Time Shift - K.T Slattery

Pure Chance - Richard Wilcocks

Pyritised Portrait - Nicky Carter

Queen Beech - Sandra Burnett

Reincarnation - Hon Corbett 

She Craves a Future of Unfamiliar Boredoms -Liz McPherson

Shepherds Bush Love Song - Matt Nicholson

Summation - Matt Nicholson

Terrified and Yet -Mandy Pannet

That Hairstyle Makes You Look Older - Natalie Scott

The Lost Boy Dreams in Colour Oz Harwick

The Messengers - Julia Webb

The Tree - Elspeth McLean

The woman who was weather -Sarah Doyle

 Thirteen Ways The Ouse is in My Thoughts - Janet Dean

When Barnsley Feast Week Fell in Paisley Fortnight - Janet Dean

When She Fell in love -Catherine Whitaker

Ziggy Stardust - Jenny Robb

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR WINNERS

AND LONGLISTERS

WHO WILL ALL BE INCLUDED

IN OUR ANTHOLOGY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

**THE 2023 YAFFLE PRIZE IS NOW CLOSED

THANKS SO MUCH FOR ALL THOSE

WHO ENTERED POEMS

WE LOOK FORWARD TO FINDING OUT

WHO HAS MADE IT TO THE LONGLIST

WHICH WILL WILL BE PUBLISHED HERE

IN MID-JUNE **

 

 

 

 

The Yaffle Prize 2023

We are delighted to be launching Yaffle’s

4th poetry competition.

 

The overall winner of the Yaffle Prize will receive £200,

runner-up £50

third place £25

 

The winner, runners-up, highly commended poets,

and those who make the short list and long list

will be published in our annual poetry 

anthology,

WHIRLAGUST IV.

 

The Yaffle Prize is open to anyone writing

in the English language, aged over 18.

 

RULES

Only poems of 40 lines or less will be considered.

 

The poems may be in any style and cover any subject.

Work deemed to be offensive will not be considered.

All entries must be the work of the poet submitting.

Previously published poems are not permitted.

We will not be accepting translations of poetry.

No changes can be made to poems once they have been submitted.

Any entries in violation to the above will be disqualified.

No refunds will be given once work has been submitted.

The decision from our judges is final.

No correspondence regarding entries will be entered into.

 

**As the poems are blind judged, to keep anonymity, poems that have been work-shopped by either of the judges will be disqualified.**

 

Entries can be made online via Pay Pal

 

1 poem: £4

2 poems: £7

4 poems: £12

6 poems: £18

 

The competition will be judged by

Yaffle Press directors Mike Farren and

Gill Connors

 

The deadline for entries is midnight 1st June 2023

 

The long-list, runners-up and winner will be announced on 15th June 2023

 

To enter the competition, please pay the appropriate fee on Paypal.

Please include the reference: Yaffle Prize.

Email your submissions to

 

yafflecompetition@gmail.com

 

Please also include your name, contact details

and address in the body of the email.

No names should appear on the submitted document.

Please submit all poems on one document via a word/docx attachment.

 

 

 Good luck!

 

WHIRLAGUST IV will be launched in Summer 2023 at an event in

Yorkshire. Date and venue to be confirmed.

 

We look forward to reading your work

and including many of you

in our annual anthology. 

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