Christmas Together Competition Winners
Thank you to all the poets who entered our competition. We received many wonderful poems from all over the world and were sorry not to be able to pick more winners.
Please do look out for future Candlestick competitions which we publicise via social media and on these pages of the website.
The five winning poems will be published in our forthcoming title Christmas Together: Twelve Poems for Those We Love which will be available in October 2021.
Winners
‘The Carol of the Stable’
Bill Adair
‘Born This Happy Morning’
Christina Buckton
‘Christmas Dinner’
Corinna Keefe
‘Boxing Day at My Grandparents’ House’
Jeanette Burton
‘Playing Love Hangover While Washing Up’
Robert Hamberger
Previous competition winners
Getting Older Poem Competition
Winners
Commended Poets
Cheryl Pearson
Clint King
Jacquie Shanahan
Marianne Jones
Tina Cole
Shortlisted Poets
Akwe Amosu
Alison Campbell
Anya Trofimova
Ben Wilkinson
Bernie Crawford
Bob Cooper
Christine Macfarlane
Consuelo Marshall
DA Prince
Darrell Hugueley
Deborah Harvey
Fiona Ritchie Walker
Gita Ralleigh
James Heaney
Jeffa Kay
Jill Sharp
Jo Field
Julian Turner
Massey Armistead
Michael Ray
Olga Dermott-Bond
Pamela Butler
Robert Hamberger
Sarah Grout
Stephen Keeler
Vanessa Lampert
Vic Pickup
Snow Poem Competition
Winners
Highly commended poets
Kerry Darbishire
Gill McEvoy
Jill Munro
Shortlisted poets
Jeanette Burton
Pat Childerhouse
John Foggin
Rhiannon Hooson
Christopher James
Claire Lynn
Beliz McKenzie
Hilary Robinson
Tom Sastry
Hannah Stone
Polly Walshe
Nicola Warwick
Sarah Ziman
Breakfast Poem Competition
Winners
‘Toaster’
Olga Dermott-Bond
‘Breakfast with Mother’
Catherine Edmunds
‘Before the Lark’
Phil M Houghton
Shortlisted poets
Jeanette Burton
Pat Childerhouse
Christopher James
John Foggin
Rhiannon Hooson
Claire Lynn
Hilary Robinson
Tom Sastry
Hannah Stone
Polly Walshe
Nicola Warwick
Sarah Ziman
Cloud Poem Competition
First Prize
‘Hazy, Massed, Dappled’
Lesley Saunders
Second Prize
Highly Commended
‘Cloud Break’
Michael Brown
‘Musings on Board Spacecraft Oasis 1’
Jeanette Burton
‘8.04pm’
Miriam Calleja
‘Cloud Content’
Caroline Hammond
‘The Cloud Collector’
Christopher James
Micropoem competition
First Prize
Roz Goddard
@rozgoddard
Commended
Maria Taylor
@MariaTaylor_
Matthew Paul
@MatthewPaulPoet
Plus five additional runner-up prizes of a copy of The Twelve Poems of Christmas (Volume Seven) to
Jeanette Burton
@Nettie31
Karen Jane Cannon
@KarenJaneCannon
Polly Atkin
@pollyrowena
Maree Jaeger
@MJPhotographer
Stephen Daniels
@stephendaniels
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