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Guernsey Literary Festival

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Guernsey Arts

2024 Winners

Judged by Paul Muldoon

Open Poetry

  1. 1st

    CONCH - Iona Roisin

    Read poem
  2. 2nd

    SWIMMING WITH HORSES - Nicholas Hogg

    Read poem
  3. 3rd

    Bewick - Jo Haslam

    Read poem

Channel Islands’ Poetry

  1. 1st

    After Guernésiais - Theodore Cross

    Read poem
  2. 2nd

    Goit - Shaun Shackleton

    Read poem

Young People’s Poetry

  1. 1st

    Remember - Tomos Wynne

    Read poem
  2. 2nd

    A Love Letter - Beth Parker

    Read poem

Poems on the Buses Exhibition

  1. Bus

    Basho at Dawn - Tom Bryan

    Read poem
  2. Bus

    Carboniferous Limestone - Michael Powell

    Read poem
  3. Bus

    Gaslight - John Atkinson

    Read poem
  4. Bus

    Hat - Andy Jackson

    Read poem
  5. Bus

    I tried to write a break-up poem
    but I wrote this instead - Tom Bailey

    Read poem
  6. Bus

    Low tide - Lynda Plater

    Read poem
  7. Bus

    Sir Lowry’s Pass - Sarah Frost

    Read poem
  8. Bus

    The Electrician - Vanessa Lampert

    Read poem
  9. Bus

    The Geese Return - Alison Stark

    Read poem
  10. Bus

    The Optimism Principle - Ken Evans

    Read poem
  11. Bus

    The sparrowhawk - Margaret Wilmot

    Read poem
  12. Bus

    THE SWIM - Sally Festing

    Read poem
  13. Bus

    Things i can finally afford - AV Bridgwood

    Read poem
  14. Bus

    When the Knacker Man Visits the Barn - Christina Thatcher

    Read poem