FIRST PRIZE:  ‘Benefiting the Publick Pocket’ by Josh Ekroy
 
SECOND PRIZE: ‘The Mortgage’ by Damen O’Brien
 
THIRD PRIZE:  ‘The Month-by-Month Guide to the Allotment Book’ byRobert Seatter

Winning and selected poems published in the competition anthology.

Adjudicator: Merryn Williams

Highly Commended:
 

• ‘The Lucky Generation’ by Peter Sutton

• ‘Unsinkable Sam’ by Neal Mason

• ‘Jacobean Tapestry’ by Elizabeth Barton

• ‘Paper Cut’ by Steve Lott

 
Commended:
 

• ‘Enlightenment’ by Fiona Ritchie Walker

• ‘Coercive Control’ by Estelle Price

• ‘The importance of having a broom nearby’ by Valerie Bence

 
Selected:
 

• ‘Regret’ by Ariane Sherine

• ‘Riddle’ by William Holloway

• ‘For God’s Foolishness….’ by   William Holloway

• ‘Sperm Daddy’ by David Byrne

• ‘Fault line’ by Valerie Bence

• ‘Girl with Peaches’ by Sue Norton

• ‘Flashback’ by Doreen Hincliffe

• ‘Jamie Vardy Scores’ by Roy Marshall

• ‘Her Childhood as a Bat’ by Vivienne Tregenza

• ‘Dentist Trip’ by Katie Mason

• ‘My mother didn’t touch salt’ by Mary Mulholland

• ‘Oblivion’ by Paul Francis

• ‘The Wanderer Drowses’ by Claudine Toutoungi

• ‘Where to Watch Fireworks in London’ by Siobhan Ward

• ‘Blood of Christ’ by Kristen Mears

• ‘An Annunciation’  by David Walrond

• ‘Serpent’ by Miles Salter

• ‘Handkerchiefs’ by Caroline Smith

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Copies of the competition anthology, The Ver Prize 2024, may be ordered by sending a payment of £4 per copy plus £1 post and packaging to Gill Knibbs at 181 Sandridge Road, St Albans, Herts AL1 4AH.