We are delighted to announce the winners of the Hungry Hill Poetry Prize 2012. The awards were made, and the winning and shortlisted poems read, at the Sarah Walker Gallery, Castletownbere, on 6 October 2012. We are grateful to Sarah Walker for providing the venue, and we are grateful to many others ( including all the poets who entered ) for helping to make the competition a success. Congratulations to Penelope Thoms and to the other successful poets. To read the winning and shortlisted poems, click here.
Above all, we are grateful to Gabriel Griffin, the competition judge, who took very great pains to read and reread the poems and to offer critical and encouraging comments at the readings; the trouble she took to support and encourage our competition ( at a busy time in her own poetry year) made the task of the organisers both easier and extremely congenial.
Winner
'Anam Cara' by Penelope Thoms
Highly Commended
'Sully Island' by Mark Blayney
'Prague' by Richard Halperin
Commended (in alphabetical order of author)
'Quantum Connections at Cern' by Don Nixon
'What her mother told her' by Karen O’Connor
Shortlisted (in alphabetical order of author)
'Conservatory' by Mark Blayney
'Rana Arborea' by Susi Clare
'Pay-back' by Susi Clare
'The Farmer’s Wife' by Doireann ní Ghríofa
'Sunday Morning' by Richard Halperin
'Flight at tide’s turning' by Alwyn Marriage
'Discus thrower' by Don Nixon
'The Dead Wife Speaks' by Michael Swan
'Dolls' by Michael Swan
Longlisted (in alphabetical order of author)
'Vulcan' by Ruth Aylett
'Stone Time' by Ed Briggs
'Paudie' by Eileen Connolly
'Tale of the underdog' by Eileen Connolly
'A Postcard from Tommy' by Richard Halperin
'The Lady in the Toque Hat' by Richard Halperin
'Glengarriff' by Seamus Harrington
'Fifty-five dreams' by Lois Elaine Heckman
'Twilight on the Lake' by Lois Elaine Heckman
'Calypso' by Cathy Leonard
'Those who go down to the sea' by Alwyn Marriage
'Estuary Wreck' by Don Nixon
'Touching Babies' by Karen O’Connor
'Remembrance from a Galloway Cairn' by Tim O’Leary
'Taking the Cord' by Jonathan Payne
'The Sickness of Long Thinking' by Jonathan Payne
'The Myth of War' by Sue Reed
'Frank Churchill' by Derek Sellen
'The Soulboat' by Derek Sellen
'One eye as dark as the night…' by Derek Sellen
'Kingfisher' by C. P. Stewart
'Disco Girl' by Jonathan Tromane
