Commendation in the George Crabbe Poetry Competition

Anne’s poem ‘Walking the Ypres Salient with My Brothers’ has been Commended in the George Crabbe Poetry Competition 2026, and published in ’12 Rivers’, the magazine of the Suffolk Poetry Society. Paul Stephenson, the competition judge, described the poem as ‘A beautiful exploration of fraternity, fragility and loss, evocative of the distinct natural landscape with its cottonwood poplars and swaying maize’.    https://suffolkpoetrysociety