The Latin Programme Poetry Prize- Previous Winners

THE LATIN PROGRAMME POETRY PRIZE 2024

WINNER

A Porcelain Princess - George Littlejohn

RUNNERS-UP

Terra Firma - Toni Rowe
Ulysses’ Reply To Tennyson - Mary Ruskin

SHORTLIST

Tempestatem significat - Mark Grant

Scared - Michael Farren

Terra Firma - John Westbrook

Actaeon Stands His Ground - Lucy Coats

Boudicca’s Layer - Angela Lord

Kintsugi Sky - Julie Stamp

Terra Firma: Legal Nightmare in Rome - Hector Penny

THE LATIN PROGRAMME POETRY PRIZE 2022-23

WINNER

Daoist Painting - Sally Ashenhurst

RUNNERS-UP

This House of Rust - Taiye Ojo
Swansea Son - Laura Potts

LONGLIST

ars longa vita brevis - Pete Atkin
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis - Lucy Coats
Damnatio Memoriae - Katie Howells
Daoist Painting - Sally Ashenhurst
Move Over Mona - Caroline Cochrane
Night Watch - Gordon Wray
This House of Rust - Taiye Ojo
Sextus Propertius - John Stoker
Swansea Son - Laura Potts
The Abandoned Stations - Rory Brennan

LONGLIST

Anecdoche - Miray Weeks
ars longa vita brevis - Pete Atkin
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis - Lucy Coats
Damnatio Memoriae - Katie Howells
Daoist Painting - Sally Ashenhurst
Followers - William Inge
Move Over Mona - Caroline Cochrane
Night Watch - Gordon Wray
San Lorenzo - John Westbrook
Sextus Propertius - John Stoker
Swansea Son - Laura Potts
The Abandoned Stations - Rory Brennan
This House Of Rust - Taiye Ojo
Wait for Me - George Littlejohn
Wafer Thin Love - Sheila Kelly Curtis

THE LATIN PROGRAMME POETRY PRIZE 2021-22

WINNER

Lucy Coats - Amor Non Vincit Omnia

THE SHORTLIST

Conchubhar Mac Cana - Love/War
Edward Bell - Omnia vincit amor?
George Littlejohn - Fugitive
Lola Parkes - Hyacinth
Lucy Coats - Amor Non Vincit Omnia
Matilde Nannizzi - Daphne
Poppy McElrue-Inch - By Way of Love
Renad Al-karaghooli - Venus' Fighters
Rory Brennan - A Love Song for Wystan Auden
Stephanie Blackwell - Occupied Territory

THE LONGLIST

Catherine Harness - Love's Lament
Conchubhar Mac Cana - Love/War
Edward Bell - Omnia Vincit Amor?
Esther Robinson - Tuatha of Transformation
George Littlejohn - Fugitive
Katie Howells - And it was their love that lasted
Lola Parkes - Hyancinth
Lucy Coats - Amor Non Vincit Omnia
Matilde Nannizzi - Daphne
Patricia Tarrant Brown - A Woodcarver's Love
Poppy McElrue-Inch - By Way Of Love
Renad Al-karaghooli - Venus' Fighters
Rory Brennan - A Love Song for Wystan Auden
Stephanie Blackwell - Occupied Territory
William Inge - Omnia vincit amor?

THE LATIN PROGRAMME POETRY PRIZE 2020-21

WINNER

Joseph Houlihan, ‘de rerum natura’

RUNNERS-UP

Maxine Backus, ‘Cisternino, Puglia’
Emma Searle, ‘Caryatid’

THE SHORTLIST (CONT.)

Dean Gessie, ‘On the Nature of Racism’
Helena Khullar, ‘To Memmius’
Ojo Taiye, ‘Moria Camp: The New Colossus’
Virginia Betts, ‘Lost Property’
Edward Bell, ‘My Love Is Latin’
Naoise Gale, ‘The Nature of Love’

THE LONGLIST

Dean Gessie, ‘On the Nature of Racism’
Helena Khullar, ‘To Memmius’
Ojo Taiye, ‘Moria Camp: The New Colossus’
Virginia Betts, ‘Lost Property’
Edward Bell, ‘My Love Is Latin’
Naoise Gale, ‘The Nature of Love’
Joanna Fahey, ‘Natural Processes’
Dee La Vardera, ‘A walk round Reclining Figure, Henry Moore, fibreglass, 1983’
George Littlejohn, ‘Honeybee’
Quanita Khan, ‘Clockwork’
Chijioke Ojukwu, ‘Even If’
William Sutton, ‘De Rerum Natura’