The Chris Salmon Foundation is delighted to announce that Xanthe Brennan was named as the overall winner of the Chris Salmon Poetry Extravaganza for 2013 and she has also been chosen to be Wirral Young Poet Laureate for the next 12 months.  Xanthe was one of 23 winners in this year’s competition which received over 700 entries. This year’s anthology containing the winning entries and foreword, specially written by Andy McCluskey from OMD, is now available from the Chris Salmon Foundation or from Wirral Libraries for £5.

The other winning entries were as follows:-


prize

Name

Poem 


adults

 Adult

 

Prize

1

Matthew Williams

Different River

1st 

2

Justin Dooley

Sea Fog

2nd 

3

Pauline Jellicoe

Spring flood

3rd

HC

Caroline England

 Here in This Place

Highly Commended

16-18

Aged 16-18 years

 

 

1

Emily Kearney

Journeying

1st

2

Amber Bryce

Narcissus

2nd

3

Indunee Seneviratne

Sonnet for my Father

3rd

HC

Kristan Lacy

The Pebble and the wide Open Sea

Highly Commended

11-16

Aged 11- 16 years

 

 

1

Xanthe Brennan

Storytelling

1st 

2

Elizabeth McGowan

Life is a river

2nd

3

Obi Elizabeth Curry

Bells of Atlantis

3rd

HC

Evie Spurdle

The Wave

 Highly Commended

HC

Harry Young

Death at Sea

Highly Commended 

HC

Katie Marrin

Betrayed

Highly Commended 

Rec-11

Aged 11 and Under

 

 

1

Morgan Machray

The sea gods’day out in New Brighton

1st 

2

Lauren Neil

Tears from above

2nd

Keiron Platt

If I was Water

3rd

HC

Katie Bastow

Water               

I walk to the tap…

Highly Commended 

HC

Emily Hill

Water

 Hello little

Highly Commended 

HC

Isaac Mclaren-Breen

Drenched Dreams

Highly Commended 

HC

Arthur Cooper

Water

A person….

Highly Commended 

HC

Amy Clarke

Water

The blue waves

Highly Commended 

Eleanor Hyland

The sea

Highly Commended 



Thank you to everyone who took part and details of the 2014 competition will be announced on here in the Autumn.