Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2024
The following prizewinning poems were chosen by our 2024 judges, Jane Yeh & Glyn Maxwell (see poems & judges’ reports below):
- First Prize, £2,000, Poem About Love, Imogen Wade, Great Bookham, Surrey
- Second Prize, £1000, Variations on a Line in Psalms, Weijia Pan, Oakland CA
- Third Prize, £500, Mazes, Victoria Korth, Rochester NY
Commended poems:
- Fennec, Alexandra Melville, London
- Home/Time, Anna Woodford, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Intervention, Anthony Lawrence, Winnum, Queensland
- Having a go, Beatrice Garland, London
- Shut out, Christopher M James, Tamnies, France
- To the unmoored body beneath, Emma Reilly, Sykesville MD
- Imagine the James Dean Ballet Opens in a Fairmount, Indiana, Corn Field, Hilary McDaniel, Albuquerque NM
- I was called Sarah Lloyd, I Patterson, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
- The Table, Kerry Darbishire, Kendal, Cumbria
- The heart bird, Lindsey Forster-Holland, Ormskirk, Lancashire
- Frequent Flyers, Lynn Foote, London
- New evidence of hummingbirds, Mark Fiddes, London
- Bayt, Mary-Jane Holmes, Barnard Castle, County Durham
- A thesis on emptiness, Michelle Brooks, London
- Broken, Mike Schneider, Pittsburgh PA
- Catfish, Rency Raquid, Oxford
- The heron, Richard Meier, London
- Daughter Country, Rosie Jackson, Teignmouth, Devon
- Springtime in Paradise, Sean Swallow, Pwllheli, Gwynedd
- A passenger’s commentary on a journey from Shanghai to Zhoushan, an island on the East coast of The Peoples Republic of China, via Hang Zhou Bay Bridge: a reminder for The Driver — 24 June 2023, Wyn Jenkins, Flint, Flintshire
2024 judges’ reports
Jane Yeh writes…
It was an honour and a pleasure to be a judge for the Troubadour International Poetry Prize this year
Read full judges' reports, & 2023 prize–winning & commended poems