The Winners of the Robert Burns Poetry Competitions
Thanks to our generous sponsors who fund the prize money for the first place winners: Dunedin-Edinburgh Sister City Society, the Otago Scottish Heritage Council, Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature, and the Dunedin Public Libraries Association (Friends of the Library).
We also thank our partners Dunedin Burns Club, Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Otago, and the Otago Daily Times.
Rap Like Robbie
First: Elaine Li Man in God’s Clothing
Second: Vuyo Tshepo Mei Success by Tides o’ Time
Third: Vuyo Tshepo Mei Success at What of Clock
Read the Rap Like Robbie Judge's general comments
Unpublished
First: Oshadha Perera Night Stars
Second: Tunmise Adebowale Solstice
Third: Daniel O’Brien Whakaarohia atu e te taniwha (think about it, taniwha)
Highly Commended: Cal May Gates A New Year
Commended: Hannah Dodds Fragments of Youth
Published
First: Elizabeth Morton To the ghost of Robbie Burns on New Year's Eve in Aotearoa
Second: Siobhan Harvey (Mary C. McCall Jr.)In Pieces, A Poet's Lament Upon a Child Leaving Home
Third: Sophia Wilson depending on the angle
Highly Commended: Alice Fairley To Myself, Some Time Ago
Commended: Michelle Elvy Octet, or two women walking in the sun