We are pleased to announce the shortlist for Wigtown Poetry Prizes 2023

 

 

Wigtown Prize

 

 

Gillian Dawson - A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

                                                    

Robert Duncan - My Aunt Betty

 

Stephanie Green - Lilias

 

Anita John - April Lambing

 

Rachel Rankin - Winter Solstice

 

John Wheway - My Mother Unwraps My Gift of Frida Kahlo’s Me and My Parrots

 

 

 

Wigtown Scots Prize

 

 

Craig Aitchison - Juist

 

Helen Cross - Junkie Lust

 

Fiona Frank - The Auld Words

   

Keeks Mc - Peer Breiths

 

 

 

Wigtown Scottish Gaelic Prize

 

 

 

 

Seonaidh Charity - Mapaichean

 

Marcas Mac an Tuairneir - Ainneamhag Gheal

 

Mairi MacLeod - An Geama

 

Marion F Morrison - An Dealbh as Fhearr do dh'Astràilia

 

Tia Thomson - Thus' air mo chuimhne

 

 

 

Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize

 

 

Jill Abram - Ensō

 

Arthur Allen - Some Things I Do Not Know

 

Anjali Suzanne Angel  - Exile

 

Stephanie Green - Ortelius’s Sea Monsters

 

Steve May - Hunter’s Moon

 

Jane McBeth - extracts from a haibun-style poem cycle

 

Sarah Stewart - You Ask Why I Seldom Ask About Men

 

 

 

Dumfries & Galloway Fresh Voice Award

 

 

 

 

 

Robin Leiper - Sunshine Against Shadow

 

Jane McBeth   - That Day

 

Diane Schofield - One Moonless Night