Each year Serena and I have been entertained, surprised, challenged, and moved by the poems we receive and, without fail, we have always unearthed some sparkling poetry gems which we are proud to publish in The Review. One of the greatest pleasures of my role has been to co-judge each subsequent annual PRS Poetry Prize alongside Serena Trowbridge. What a decade of poetry is has been! I’ve written many poems for the Society in the intervening ten years, and I have been touched by the warm responses these have drawn from the membership. A cordial relationship developed, and I was thrilled to be appointed as the Society’s Poet-in-Residence in the spring of 2012. I had long been fascinated by the Pre-Raphaelite movement, and knew then that I had many more PRB-inspired poems within me, still to write. In what feels simultaneously like the distant past and, somehow, the blink of an eye, I had the honour of winning the inaugural Pre-Raphaelite Society Poetry Prize in late 2011, with my poem ‘ Reflections of Ophelia’.
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