The Kent & Sussex Poetry Society

Hi all!

Thank you to everyone who attended the award’s ceremony. We’re now pleased to officially publish the winners of the Folio Competition.

As always, thank you to everyone who sent in their entries and participated. Each entry was a delight to read, and we sincerely encourage you all to submit for next year’s competition: do not be discouraged for not making the list! Continue to write your lovely poems, and dazzle us next time.

Now, here are the list of the winners for this year’s competition:

1st : Shrink me — Sophia Bartleet
2nd: buzz buzz — Alexis Deese
3rd: Crossing — Satya Bosman

Highly Commended:
I am Baba Ghanoush – Amal Garnham
Volunteer – Cathy Hills
Glued to a pheasant’s throat – Clem Henricson
Being Rothko’s Red – Fiona Williams
Kindling – Mary Gurr
Agnus Dei – Phil Vernon
Biography – Suzanne Cleary

Folio Selection:
Edie Elowen Grace – Alexis Deese
The fields of the cloth of gold – Charlie Bell
I piled my hair – Jill Munro
A Ladybird Year – John Arnold
The Clinic Gardener – Judith Shaw
Vasectomy / VasecTO ME – Laura Clout
Beige Rebranded – Lucy Duckworth
The village news – Martin Cordrey
After he’d gone – Mary Gurr
Waiting – Matthew Sumner
Dawn – Matthew Sumner
How light gets in – Paul Robert
Listen – Rennie Halstead
Footnotes – Satya Bosman

Thank you again to everyone who entered, and congratulations to the winners! We hope to see all your entries again next year.