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Winners

‘Light’

Thank you to all the poets who entered our competition. We received a tremendous variety of interpretations of the light theme – everything from bioluminescence to the Northern Lights. As always it was enjoyable reading the poems and extremely difficult to choose the winners.

We eventually settled on nine poems, all of which will appear in our forthcoming title Ten Poems of Light in October 2024 – published to celebrate the achievement of one million pamphlet sales. The tenth poem is a special commission by Carole Bromley.

Many congratulations to the nine wonderful winners and everyone on the shortlist!

  • Winners
  • DA Prince – ‘Sea-light’
  • Jane Burn – ‘Telling My Child About Light’
  • Laura Theis – ‘craving’
  • Nairn Kennedy – ‘Fire Fox’
  • Penny Sharman – ‘Foxfire’
  • Rachel Jeffcoat – ‘Desire Lines’
  • Rosie Jackson – ‘Magdalene and the Flame’
  • Shasta Hanif Ali – ‘Things that hold light’
  • Stephen Keeler – ‘Flametree’
  • Shortlist
  • DA Prince (two poems)
  • Elizabeth Tyson-Doneley
  • Emma Simon
  • Giles Watson (three poems)
  • Isabelle Thompson
  • Jane Burn
  • Karan Chambers
  • Kate O’Neil
  • Kerry Darbishire
  • LB Jørgensen
  • Laura Theis (two poems)
  • Leah Larwood
  • Lisa Falshaw
  • Maria Isakova-Bennett
  • Martyn Crucefix
  • Nairn Kennedy (three poems)
  • Nora Nadjarian
  • Penny Sharman (two poems)
  • Rachel Jeffcoat
  • Rosie Jackson
  • Shasta Hanif Ali
  • Stephen Keeler
  • Sue Burge
  • Vanessa Napolitano

Please do look out for future Candlestick competitions which we publicise via Facebook, Instagram, Threads or X and on this page.

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