The Highly Commended and Runners-up poems entered into the Wilfred Owen Association's International Poetry Competition are:
Highly Commended
- Mark Haworth-Booth : “The Anthropocene”
- Don Nixon: “Wreck of a Troopship 1916”
- Chris Raetschus: “How to Survive the News”
- Gill Learner: “The Lodestar of the Upper VIth”
- Kathy Miles: “Picking Grapes”
- Pat Winslow: “Utah”
- Hazel Hutchison: “Intermezzo: Gallipoli”
Runners-up
- Greg Freeman: “Learning by Heart”
- Michael Wood: “Bergen-Belsen”
- Martin Bennett: “Now thrive the armourers”
- Michael Brett: “Every dead baby is a baby Croatian”
- Margaret Holbrook: “In a village of many ash trees”
- Andria J Cooke: “The Last One Left”
- Alan Franks: “Late Rendezvous”
- Susan Davies: The Invaders”
- Roger Elkin: “Fishing in the Khyber River”
- Rebecca Bilkau: “On not going to Bergen-Belsen”
First prize in the competition was awarded to Alan Franks for his poem “The Manor”. Click here for more information.
