It was a great honour for me last night to be awarded The Friendly Street Poets’ Satura Prize for best poem in the annual anthology. The 39^th annual reader titled Silver Singing Streams (ed. Kalicharan N Dey and Geoff Hastwell) contains poems of a pretty high standard – so I’m especially humbled that my poem a clarity of smog was chosen by this year’s judge Mike Ladd as the pick of the bunch. Congratulations to all the other poets who were shortlisted.

The Satura Award celebrates the late John Bray who was a tour de force for the first twenty years of Friendly Street.

Read the poem HERE.