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In conversation with Eric Yip, the nineteen-year-old National Poetry Competition winner – Young Poets Network

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Eric is a student of Economics from Hong Kong, currently in his first year at Cambridge, and has bagged the top prize of £5,000, despite never having had a poem published in a magazine before. His winning poem ‘Fricatives’ – which won out over 16,729 other entries – deals deftly with migration, language and family. One of the three judges, Fiona Benson, said:

Aged nineteen, Eric Yip is the youngest person to have ever won The Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition. Photo: Hayley Madden for The Poetry Society Eric is a student of Economics from Hong Kong, currently in his first year at Cambridge, and has bagged the top prize of £5,000, despite never having had a poem published in a magazine before. His winning poem ‘Fricatives’ – which won out over 16,729 other entries – deals deftly with migration, language and family. One of the three judges, Fiona Benson, said: ‘Fricatives’ is an immensely ambitious and beautifully achieved poem. It puts it

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