This is only the sixth ‘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, and gets worse if you then can’t tell people about them due to the nefarious forces of evil – or at least the teenagers who took over the tech, as it were.
But a winner we have and I am verily pleased to be able to announce the first collection that is to be published in 2024, is:
MICHAEL TROMANS
for
‘The Ozymandias of the Golden and the Green’
Congratulations to Michael, and many thanks to all who took the time to send their work in.
The full shortlist was:
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- Miriam Otto
- Gary Day
- Caroline Gilfillan
- Roger Bloor
- Christopher M James
- Fiona Lynch (Commended)
- Marion Ashton
- Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon
- Irene Cunningham (Commended)
- Margaret Royall (Highly Commended)
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