Troubadour International Poetry Prize
The Troubadour International Poetry Prize is organised by Coffee-House Poetry. Operating out of The Troubadour, a historical writers’ and artists’ café in London, Coffee-House Poetry was created in 1997 by Anne-Marie Fyfe to build on the long-standing tradition of Troubadour poetry readings.
2019
Troubadour International Poetry Prize
First Prize
“What My Net Dragged to the Surface”
Chen Cuifen
MA Creative Writing, Class of 2021
The winning poem, “What My Net Dragged to the Surface”, was praised by judge Jo Shapcott for its “skilful emotional structuring, made to look like a disordered heap of this and that, but with items and layers forensically selected as the poem moves down the page, gathering in a momentum of feeling.”