DUNCAN FORBES agreed to be the judge for 2011.

Duncan Forbes has appeared twice before at the Festival as well as being a regular contributor to Acumen Literary Journal.

DUNCAN FORBES' poems have been published by Faber, Secker and Enitharmon, who brought out a Selected Poems, Lifelines, in 2009. It was drawn from five previous collections. www.enitharmon.co.uk Awards and prizes include a Gregory Award, TLS/Blackwells Prize, two Stephen Spender Times Translation Prizes and a Hawthornden Fellowship. A painter as well as a poet, he read English at Oxford and has taught for many years.

PRIZE-WINNERS:  TORBAY OPEN POETRY COMPETITION 2011

FIRST PRIZE:

Surfers, Carrowmore Strand     Wayne, Price, Aberdeen

SECOND PRIZE:

An Anatomical Affair  Angela Beese, Otley   

THIRD PRIZE:

Twenty Questions   Elaine Miller, Dawlish

HIGHLY COMMENDED:

Revenants    Nigel Jarrett,  Chepstow

Iron Blue Duns   Wayne Price, Aberdeen

Night Passage   Wendy French,  London

City Road     Wendy French, London

Popular Science  Malcolm Watson,  Hull

Old Man at the Gym    Keith Chandler,  Bridgnorth

Winter Trees     Elisabeth Rowe, Yelverton, Nr Plymouth

Last of the Fathers    Elisabeth Rowe,  Yelverton

Slow Ways  Angela France  Cheltenham

Holy Mountain   Martin Malone, Penrith

I Know what I saw   John Arnold. Crowbury E. Sussex

Two Fridays  Jo Peters, Otley

You   Julia Deakin  (Yorkshire)

Dear Son   Andrew Geary, Herts

When Katya Became Katyushka  Margaret  Speak, York

Young Persons Prize

The Hospital   Madeleine Stevens  aged 10

Watching the River  Rafaele Bly aged 11