The Times Stephen Spender Prize 2010
Winners
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14-and-under prize
Winner
Henry Miller, Amores 3.2 by Ovid (Latin)Commended
Dominic Hand, ‘Spleen’ by Baudelaire (French)Sam Peters, ‘Poem 27’ by Catullus (Latin)
18-and-under prize
Winners
First: Patrick Heaton, from Heroides 1 by Ovid (Latin)Joint second: Iona Hannagan Lewis, ‘Rhyfel’ by Hedd Wyn (Welsh)
Joint second: Amelia Hassard, ‘Get Drunk’ by Baudelaire (French)
Commended
Emily Carpenter, ‘The Erl King’ by Goethe (German)Henry Edwards, Elegies 1.3 by Propertius (Latin)
Claire Ewbank, 'Grodek' by Georg Trakl (German)
Ben Pope from Metamorphoses 8 by Ovid (Latin)
Open prize
Winners
First: John Richmond, ‘The Retreat from Moscow’ by Victor Hugo (French)Second: Duncan Forbes, ‘Confession’ by the Archpoet (Latin)
Third: Jane Draycott, ‘Song for Wulf’ (Anglo-Saxon)
Commended
Chen Dandan, ‘Strawberry Pie’ by Xia Yu (Chinese)Michael Foley, ‘The Poets Aged Seven’ by Arthur Rimbaud (French)
James Knox Whittet, ‘Hallaig’ by Sorley Maclean (Gaelic)
Mario Petrucci, ‘History’ by Eugenio Montale (Italian)
Carol Rumens, ‘Canto 27’ from Dante’s Purgatorio (Italian)