poetry festivalDr. William Henry Drummond Poetry Contest 2022
First Place
DARK TIDE by Tanya Standish McIntyre
Second Place
London’s Docklands, Pre-Gentrification by Peter Austin
Third Place
Canada by DC Reid
Eight Honourable Mentions
- Touch-No-Matter-What by Elana Wolff
- One More Love Affair by Peter Austin
- Birch Island by Richard Brait
- analogies juxtapositions things that bump together in the night-time of my mind by Carol Malyon
- When the Hummingbirds Leave by Keith Inman
- to be or not to be: a recipe by Daniela Elza
- Wild fire by Michael Stacey
- so many words by Nancy Daoust
Nine Judge’s Choice Awards
- Hazardous Beauty by Gregory Skala
- Reincarnation in Samois-sur-Seine Cemetery by Roberta McGill
- In this Version by Jan Wood
- prodigal’s return by Jan Wood
- Hayseed Jesus by Eric Moore
- Prayer for the Displaced of Ukraine by Louise Fairley
- “a mother mulls her son’s self-injuries” by Dean Gessie
- The Offering by Lea Harper
- ON THE BLACK SISTER’S STREET by Aishat Gbadamosi