Celebrating the Life and Work of Ted Hughes

The winner was Roy Cockcroft from Langtoft in East Yorkshire, with Wet Harvest. In second place was Lydia Macpherson from Cambridge, with Insomnia. The runners up were Ellis Lloyd for The Tally, and Gillian Rathbone, for City Life.

Read the winning poems!

The competition attracted more than 400 entries from all over the world, including Nepal and New Zealand. Entries from the Yorkshire region were also judged for a new prize sponsored by the University of Huddersfield, and this was won by Pauline Stephenson from Halifax, with Glen Hume Mine 1948. The Yorkshire entries were judged by the American lyric poet, Anne Stevenson.

For more information on The Yorkshire Poetry Prize click here