Well, I know that this one is genuinely ‘eagerly awaited’ as people keep asking me about it, but every year the Cupid’s Arrow Competition gets more popular and much, much harder to judge, so it is truly worth the wait, even if the wait is longer than hoped. Probably.
But I’m pleased to say that we have got there in the end and none other than
Vicky Allen
is our Overall Winner, and will be joined by our Shortlisted Poets in a wee anthology in the coming months.
The Full Shortlist is:
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- Vicky Allen
- Kathy Finney
- Sarah Wheatley
- Lara Reid
- Eleni Cay
- Val Ormrod
- S.A Leavesley
- Margaret Royall
- Vankshita Mishra
- Patricia Ahern
- Richard Baker
- Fiona Halliday
- Iain Campbell
- Fred Milner
- Ankh Spice
- Kerry Darbishire
- Lenox (Wenzhi) Lin
- Giles Constable
- Marco Pirali
- Simon Tindale
