2017 Young Poets Category:

Winning and shortlisted Poets

First Prize

Alzheimer’s Disease: A Proof by Exhaustion

Erin O’Malley, York, Pennsylvania, USA

Shortlisted Poems

Rachel Litchman, Interlochen, Michigan, USA  Selected Autobiography: Children's Memorial Hospital

Roberta Maia Sher, London, UK  Melanoma

Izzy Wythe, Oundle, UK  Calpol in Adolescence

Vernon Yian, Singapore  How light falls on the palliative bed

Joyce Zhou, Naperville, Illinois, USA  Cancer as Self-Prescribed Stars