We are delighted to announce that the winners of the national Jane Martin Poetry Prize competition for 2025 have now been released.
Read the poems here.
Image: (Left) Annabelle Fuller, (Right) Cia Mangat
Annabelle Fuller read Classics and English at Magdalen College, Oxford, where she won the Newdigate Prize and the Richard Selig Prize. At Oxford, she edited The Isis and has been published in the Oxford Review of Books.
Cia Mangat is a poet from London. Her work has been published in fourteen poems, gal-dem, Propel, and bath magg, and has been broadcast by the BBC. She loves writing about bodies, gossip, and Lady Di, and her debut pamphlet is forthcoming with The Poetry Business in 2025.
This year’s judges were Caoilinn Hughes and Dr Kirsten Norrie.
Image: (Left) Caoilinn Hughes, (Right) Dr Kirsten Norrie
Caoilinn Hughes is a poet, short story writer, and novelist. Her latest novel is The Alternatives, a New York Times Editor's Choice. She is the author of The Wild Laughter, which won the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award, and Orchid & the Wasp, which won the Collyer Bristow Prize and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Her short stories have won the Irish Book Awards' Story of the Year, The Moth Short Story Prize, and an O.Henry Prize. She was recently Oscar Wilde Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin and a Cullman Center Fellow at New York Public Library.
Dr Kirsten Norrie is a poet who publishes under her Highland name, MacGillivray. She has published four books of poetry, The Last Wolf of Scotland (Pighog/Red Hen, 2013), The Nine of Diamonds: Surroial Mordantless (Bloodaxe Books, 2016), The Gaelic Garden of the Dead (Bloodaxe Books, 2019) and Ravage, An Astonishment of Fire (Bloodaxe Books, 2023). Her work has appeared in the Guardian, the TLS, the Scotsman, on BBC Radio 3 Late Junction and the Verb. She is the 2024-2025 Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at the University of Cambridge.
