**WINNERS**
HERE ARE THE WINNERS, COMMENDED, HIGHLY COMMENDED AND LONGLISTED POEMS AND POETS FOR
THE YAFFLE PRIZE 2020
Tina Cole 1st Prize: winning £200.00
'Nothing but the strength of names'
Abi Rowan 2nd Prize: winning £50.00
'Giving birth on the grass'
Ruth Kelsey 3rd Prize: winning £25.00
'Superman writes poetry on his day off'
Rachel Glass Highly Commended
'Octopus'
Joe Caldwell Highly Commended
'Maristella'
Ruth Aylett Commended Astronomer:
'El Roque de Los Muchachos'
Sharon Phillips Commended
'Bottom Line'
Andrea Small Commended
'Mermyth'
Christina Kelly Commended
'Clandestine'
Longlist:
A Change of Heart :Ruth Kelsey
Adam's Return: Kate Innes
After that they learned to whisper: John Foggin
After the Autumn Equinox: Sally Tottle
Audrey Hepburn and Marlene Dietrich are Fighting: Joe Williams
Birdland: Barry Fentiman-Hall
Bricks: Oz Hardwick
Centripetal: Matt Nicolson
Clifford: Ian Harker
Compass Points: Liz Proctor
Departure: Joe Caldwell
É strano sempre libera: Rachel Davies
Felix Baumgartner’s Spacesuit: Natalie Scott
Fireweed: Andy Humphrey
Freight: Moira Garland
Hatch Street Years: Steve Denehan
Homage: Bill Fitzsimons
Incompatible with Camera: Kevin Reid
It’s snowing at Quarry Hill: Tim Brookes
Jazz: Donna Irving
Ladybird: Jack Faricy
Lost in the Labyrinth: Rosemary McLeish
Mam's Wedding Ring: Rachel Burns
Memory, the jewelry maker: Kevin Reid
Minerva’s Wisdom: Penny Blackburn
My Granny Bridget’s Wrapover Pinny: Shelia Jacobs
Offerkofta: Donna Irving
Once: Benjamin Cassidy
Ordinary Folks: Tina Cole
Ovum Diaries: Shelia Jacobs
Peregrine: Andrea Small
Peter the Great:Kathleen Strafford
Romans versus Barbarians Jack Faricy
Samuel Palmer’s Moons Derek Sellen
Seasons: Alastair de Grandis
Shame:Christina Kelly/Wilson
Sheaf Square, Sheffield: Ian Harker
Sisyphus Rocks: Rosemary McLeish
Spring walks 2020: Mandy Macdonald
Storm Petrel: Laura Theis
Tansy Beetle: Andy Humphrey
The Chorus that Dawn was a Solitary Blackbird: Becky Cherriman
The Father: Cherry Doyle
The Moon and Marinetti: Derek Sellen
The River: Natalie Scott
The Shortest Day: Sharon Phillips
The Stanislavski Method: Oz Hardwick
The tale of Jarman Avenue: Gareth Culshaw
The Wrong House: Louise Swingler
There Will Never Be Another You: Kathleen Strafford
Transformation, or the wanting of wings:Denni Turp