The Jane Martin Poetry Prize is a key part of the College’s support for poetry and will be of interest to all those serious about literary excellence.
The national prize for young poets (for those aged between 18-30 years) is a key part of the College’s support for poetry and will be of interest to all those who are serious about literary excellence.
The competition is judged by experts drawn from across the literary world and academia. The winners receive a cash prize of £700 and have an opportunity to give a reading at a celebratory event at Girton College, at which the prize will be awarded. There is also a second prize of £300 cash.
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Girton College is delighted to annouce the winners of the 2015 Jane Martin Poetry Prize: Theophilus Kwek and Charlotte Buckley.
Born in Singapore, Theophilus Kwek has published two volumes of poetry, They Speak Only Our Mother Tongue (2011) and Circle Line (2013), which was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize in 2014. He won the Martin Starkie Prize for poetry in 2014, and was also Highly Commended in that year’s PBS National Student Poetry Competition. His poetry has previously appeared in Cake, Spork Press, Cadaverine, and both the Asiatic and Mascara Literary Reviews. He reads History and Politics at Merton College, Oxford, and is Secretary of the Oxford University Poetry Society.
Charlotte Buckley read English Literature at the University of Manchester and went on to complete a Master’s in Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin in 2013, for which she was awarded a Distinction. Her poems have appeared in Icarus Magazine, The New Writer, Stinging Fly and Cadaverine Magazine, for whom she is also a regular poetry reviewer.She was a recipient of the Basil Bunting Poetry Award in 2013 and was highly commended in the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize in 2014.
Previous winners:
2014 Alexandra Strnad and Penny Boxall
2013 Jen Campbell
The 2013 Jane Martin Poetry Prize winner was Jen Campbell. The judges were all impressed by ‘the poetry’s combination of energy and skilfulness, and its delight in spoken language’. Follow this link to read her winning collection. NB All poems are copyright of Jen Campbell.
2012 Jane Yeh
2011 Agnes Lehoczky and Emily Critchley
For any queries relating to the prize please email poetryprize@girton.cam.ac.uk
