22nd February, 2016

Siobhán Campbell wins Oxford Brookes Poetry Competition

Congratulations to Siobhan Campbell, who has won First Price in the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition’s Open category with ‘Framed’. Siobhan’s most recent poetry collection, Cross Talk, was published by Seren.
Judge’s statement:
‘The standard of the entries for the inaugural Oxford Brookes Poetry Competition was very high – I was spoilt by poems to choose from. Many of them seem to emerge from a broad range of life experiences, and some of the finest had a sense of urgency to them, of needing to be written.
The First Prize winner in the Open category, ‘Framed’, had exactly this sense, of witnessing, or testimony to a very strange course of events, and that is what I loved about it – the range of movement in the story it tells, from Guyana to the docks of England to the Inner Hebrides.’
View the full list of winning poems here.