Carol Rowntree Jones
'This is not normal behaviour'
What may be lost and what discovered when we find our capacity for love? The strange and beautiful poems of 'This is not normal behaviour' explore the dark fears of motherhood and human nature, and the risks love commits us to.
1st Prize: Carol Rowntree Jones
2nd Prize: Mandy Haggith
3rd Prize: Sharon Black
Judges
Sarah Jackson - Poet In Residence 2014
Dr Kerry Featherstone - Poet and Lecturer in English
Judges comments
"Sophisticated and carefully crafted poems, unnerving yet elegant, accomplished yet strange." - Sarah Jackson
"The small things these poems are made from … remind us of the uneasy beauty of our everyday world." - Matthew Welton, Poet and Lecturer in Writing and Creativity at the University of Nottingham