This is only the fifth ‘Slim Volume of One’s Own’ Pamphlet Competition, and as with the previous times it seems to have brought a lot of excellent work out and again proved to be our most popular competition.
As a bit of background – pamphlets are the absolute core to everything we do at Hedgehog, but I was conscious that we only really offered short collections to first time poets, which is daft as there was never a good reason for that.
The downside to popularity is that it takes a lot longer to judge all of the entries, but I am pleased to say that I got it down to a shortlist and ultimately two winners, which seems to be the way of things when I find myself unable to choose:
The first is a great collection from a quite stunning poet,
Sally Spedding
for
‘DAMAGE’
The second is actually a poetry conversation between Mum and son, and is absolutely brilliant:
Torin Howarth-Lowe (Age 6)
&
his Mum,
Zoë Sîobhan Howarth-Lowe
for their conversation
‘What An Amazing Place We’ve Been To.’
Both of which I am pleased to say will be published in 2023.
Congratulations to Sally, Torin and Zoë, and many thanks to all who took the time to send their work in.
The full shortlist was:
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- Lesley Graham
- Allen O’Leary
- Janet Dean
- Torin & Zoë Sîobhan Howarth-Lowe
- Elizabeth Barton
- Noel King (Commended)
- Miriam Calleja
- Sally Spedding
- Simon Tindale (Commended)
- Yvonne Baker (Highly Commended)
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