Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize launched

This competition was set up in memory of the late Professor Jon Stallworthy (1935-2014), poet and Fellow of Wolfson College, and was open to any student currently enrolled in postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford. The funding for the prize has been provided by generous donations to the English Faculty and to Wolfson College from Old Possum's Practical Trust and from the Derek Hill Foundation (with thanks to Lord Gowrie).

The prize will be awarded for the best poem in English verse, not exceeding 40 lines in length, on the subject of ‘Seeing Things'. The value of the prize is £1,000 and entrants were able to submit up to three poems.

The judges for the first prize are the Oxford Professor of Poetry, Simon Armitage, and Professor Bernard O'Donoghue.

The award will take place at an event in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, on Monday 18 January, 5.30-7pm.