We are thrilled that Victoria Adukwei Bulley has been announced as the winner of the 2023 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize for her debut book Quiet. A huge congratulations to her!

Announcing the 2023 winner, chair of the judging panel, Professor Eoin McNamee, Director of the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre, said: “The judging panel are delighted to be able to announce Victoria Adukwei Bulley’s Quiet as the winner of the John Pollard International Poetry Prize. These poems call out in the quiet, the personal and the political fused, the poet falling through the self and plucking from the air bright marvels, lost and stolen language, defiance, lamentation and beauty.”

You can read more about the prize and Victoria’s win here.