Troubadour International Poetry Prize

Awards

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.

See entries below

Judges: Jo Shapcott and Daljit Nagra

2019

First Prize

Chen Cuifen
MA Creative Writing, Class of 2021

Entry: “What My Net Dragged to the Surface”

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.”

Read the poem here.

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Troubadour International Poetry Prize

First Prize

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