Events 2025/2026
- London: 28.11.25
- Ipswich: 19.1.26
- Bournemouth: 20.1.26
- Bath: 21.1.26
- Bristol: 21.1.26
- Basingstoke: 22.1.26
- Birmingham: 26.1.26
- Brighton: 28.1.26
- London: 29.1.26
- Nottingham: 2.2.26
- Peterborough: 3.2.26
- Manchester: 4.2.26
- Oxford: 6.2.26
- Bradford: 9.2.26
- Northampton: 11.2.26
- London: 12.2.26
- York: 26.2.26
A-level Event 2026
The Simon Powell Poetry Prize Update: Wednesday 4th June 2025
We have now contacted the ten winners of this year’s competition to inform them of their success.
Well done to our winners, but congratulations to everyone who entered the competition.
As our judge Daljit Nagra said,
Another thrilling year of entries where the standard is so high it becomes hard to select just ten winners. There are so many powerful and moving stories here… Each winning poem shows tremendous planning of lineation, verse and rhyme which always bring the best out of the story without having to be too direct …I hope all the winners and all those who missed out, will continue enjoying the pleasures of writing and reading poetry. Well done everyone!
To everyone who entered, thanks for making this year’s competition such high quality and keep writing.
Once again congratulations to our winners!
Best wishes,
Daniel Powell
About the events
Each event includes the Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage. He is one of Britain’s best poets, with a superb ear for language.This is a great opportunity to hear Simon read his work from the anthology. Carol Ann Duffy is one of the most read, studied and loved of today’s poets. She was an inspiring and transformational …More