Poetry Competition 2024
RESULTS
Congratulations to all of the entrants in our 2024 Poetry Competition, held in honour of our former CA President Anne Carson, and particularly to those who were highly commended, shortlisted and longlisted. We had an extraordinary number of entries, of such high quality, and from across the world – it was brilliant to see the extent of how the ancient world had inspired these poets and translators.
Huge thanks to our judges of the different categories – Armand D’Angour, Selina Tusitala Marsh, Judith Mossman, Alex McAuley and Sharon Marshall. You can scroll through the list of winners below and listen to the recordings of some of these winning poems! Please note that some of these poems contain adult themes.
ORIGINAL
Junior (11 and under)
Winner: Zara Connelly – ’79 AD’
Second Place: Divit Bhargava – ‘I Salute My Mother’
Third Place: Agnes Asante-Gregory – ‘Maze’
Senior (12-18)
Winner: Maya Le Her – ‘Persephone’
Second Place: Elise Withey – ‘Gilgamesh tries anti-aging mousse’
Third Place: Cherie Wong – ‘Eating Prometheus’
Highly Commended writers included: Idris Scrase, Almila Dükel, Jay Miller, Raine McCusker, Alice Jinks, Carole Tucker, Jamie Heath, Holly Hamel, Claud Harris, Lauren Clarke and Amelie-Grace Nair-Grepinet
Open (19+)
Winner: Emily Lord-Kambitsch – ‘Pluto’s Wife in Transit’
Second Place: Rachel Burns – ‘Hector of County Durham’
Third Place: Jessa Brown – ‘Heurodis Began to Wake’
Runners Up: Sieve Bonaiuti, Karan Chambers, Alexis Deese-Smith, Freya Jackson, Sihle Ntuli
Highly Commended writers included: Ba Seoighe, Rhys Pearce, Innas Tsuroiya, Mark Fiddes, Simon Parker, Len Oliver, Sarah Terkaoui, Emily Formstone, May Robinson, Sarah Sharp, Nancy Graham, Alex MacFarlane, Sarah Gibbons, Lily Birch, Jake Reynolds, Fred Lambert
TRANSLATION
Junior (11 and under)
Winner: Augusta Sileris – ‘The Odyssey’
Highly Commended translators included: Janani Iyer (‘Upanishad’)
Senior (12-18)
Winner: Hannah Gilmore – ‘That Hollow of Your Hand’ (Tibullus 2.4)
Runner Up: Violet Wan – ‘Driving along the Eastern Gate I gaze’ (Nineteen Old Poems)
Highly Commended translators included: Maya Grace Cragg-Hine, Harshit Sahoo, Lachlan Edwards
Open (19+)
Winner: C. Luke Soucy – ‘Horace Ode 4.1’
Runner Up: Margaret Coats – ‘Festal Flourish’ (Tibullus 2.1)
Highly Commended translators included: Julia Irons, Eleanor Williamson, Marko Trandafilovski, Holly Smith, Lily Bickers
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