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The Plough Prize - 2023

International Poetry Competition

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Now in its twentieth year, the Plough Poetry Prize is an international open competition for poems in English up to 40 lines on any subject.

We're delighted that this year's competition will be judged by

Imtiaz Dharker 

Imtiaz Dharker (photo Ayesha Dharker)

Imtiaz Dharker (photo Ayesha Dharker)

Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist and video film maker, awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014. She has been Poet in Residence at Cambridge University Library and worked on several projects across art forms in Leeds, Newcastle and  Hull as well as the Archives of St Paul’s Cathedral. Her six collections include Over the Moon and the latest, Luck is the Hook, with poems featured on radio, television, the London Underground and Mumbai buses. She has had eleven solo exhibitions of drawings and scripts and directs video films, many of them for non-government organisations working in the area of shelter, education and health for women and children in India. 

The Winners & Prizes 

1st Prize:
£1,000
Mara Bergman

What Became of Judy at Chase

2nd Prize:
£500
Rosie Garland

I do not understand quantum physics until I see you dancing

3rd Prize:
£250
Christopher James

Swimming to America

You can read the winning poems, and see long and short lists here.

 

Closing date: 31 March 2023

 

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