Poetry Book Society

Posted: 15 November 2011

The winners of this year's Times Stephen Spender Prize have been announced. This year's prize was judged by Susan Bassnett , Edith Hall, Patrick McGuinness and George Szirtes.

14-and-under prize

Winners

Joint winner: Giles Robinson, Breakfast by Jacques Prévert (French)
Joint winner: Anamay Viswanathan, Children of the Sun and Wind by Mohammed Ebnu (Spanish)

Commended

Derek Lam, The Ballad of Mulan anon (Classical Chinese)
Charlie Mack, A Dream for Winter by Arthur Rimbaud (French)

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18-and-under prize

Winners

First: Andrew Wynn Owen, from The Whale anon (Anglo-Saxon)
Joint second: Joel Farrance, As by Robert Desnos (French)
Joint second: William Kennaway, In the Jaws of Luxury... by Petronius (Latin)
Joint second: Phoebe Power, Blood Orange by Jacques Prévert (French)

Commended

Iman Ahmedani, From the Child to His Foot by Pablo Neruda (Spanish)
Oscar Davies, Open Windows by Victor Hugo (French)
Isobel Gooder, Good Advice for Lovers by Victor Hugo (French)
Holly Whiston, Fragment 31 by Sappho (Ancient Greek)

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Open prize

Winners

First: Meghan Purvis, The Collar from Beowulf, anon (Anglo-Saxon)
Second: Martin Bennett, Toto Merumeni by Guido Gozzano (Italian)
Third: Henry Stead, from Medea by Seneca (Latin)

Commended

Jane Draycott, The Man in the Moon anon (Old English)
Adam Elgar, Sonnet 32 by Gaspara Stampa (Italian)
Meghan Purvis, Modthryth from Beowulf, anon (Anglo-Saxon)
Sam Riviere, Tristia by Osip Mandelstam (Russian)
Patricia Roseberry, The Murderer's Wine by Charles Baudelaire (French)
John Turner, Sagesse III, XII by Paul Verlaine (French)
John Turner, Parsifal by Paul Verlaine (French)

Source: Stephen Spender Trust

Categories: Poetry Prizes

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