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  Subscribe The Guardian - Back to home News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle Show caption Poetry National Poetry Competition has its youngest ever winner  At 19, Eric Yip scoops the £5,000 prize for his personal and political work, Fricatives. Read his ‘immensely ambitious and beautifully achieved poem’ here Sarah Shaffi Thu 31 Mar 2022 15.15 EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A 19-year-old economics student from the University of Cambridge has become the youngest person to ever win the National  Poetry  Competition. Eric Yip, who is from Hong Kong, won for his poem Fricatives, which plays with ideas about language to also comment on colonialism, race, migration, belonging and the guilt of leaving one’s home behind. “It was such a complete shock for me [to have won],” Yip told the Guardian. “Poetry is definitely one of the arts where you get better with age because you have more lived experiences and you read more and you write more. “Being 19, I ...

  News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle Show caption Stella prize  ‘Surprised and delighted’: poetry dominates Stella prize shortlist after change in rules Three collections are up for the $50,000 Australian literary prize for women and non-binary writers, alongside a graphic novel, an essay and one novel Sian Cain  @siancain Wed 30 Mar 2022 17.54 EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Poetry is already dominating Australia’s Stella prize in its first year of being eligible, with three collections among the six shortlisted books up for the $50,000 literary award for women and non-binary writers. ‘The whole canon is being reappraised’: how the #MeToo movement upended Australian poetry On a shortlist whittled down from 220 entries, Noongar and Yawuru poet Elfie Shiosaki has made it for her first collection Homecoming, which explores colonialisation and assimilation across four generations of women in her family. Philippines-born poet Eunice Andrada is nominat...