Coleridge Poetry Prize
"The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew. The furrow followed free".
We are delighted to announce that the Coleridge Poetry Prize is now open for entries! If you have a poem (up to 40 lines) on any subject, we’d love to see it. The winner will receive a £50 prize and have their work featured on the Exmoor Society’s website and in other publications.
We relaunched our annual poetry competition back in 2024, and named it in honour of the romantic poet, Samual Taylor Coleridge. In 1797 Coleridge spent many days walking on Exmoor from his home in Nether Stowey and was inspired by the combination of its landscape and opium to write some of his most famous poems: Kubla Khan, the Rime of the Ancient Mariner and, with William Wordsworth, the Lyrical Ballads.
This year’s entries will be judged by local resident Tom Cain, Emeritus Professor at Newcastle University, and a published poet and critic.
It is free to enter this competition. Please submit your entries by email (info@exmoorsociety.com) before midnight on Monday 30th June 2025. Happy writing!
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