Organised by

Guernsey Literary Festival

Sponsored by

Specsavers

Supported by

Guernsey Arts

Holly Hopkins, Manchester

3rd prize: Open Poetry
Poems on the Move & Poems on the Buses Exhibitions

When I found some women with bellies

They were in the National Gallery wearing dolphin smooth skin and only the airiest net at their hips, stomachs round but childless snug with grapes and game. Women with necks like glasses of milk and impossible jelly-mould breasts carry confidence in their bellies. If you plugged them to a socket their abdomens would shine like bulbs.