Hamish Canham Prize

The Hamish Canham Prize is awarded annually by the Poetry Society to the best poem featured in the Members' Poems competition of Poetry News. Poetry News is a quarterly newsletter with features, interviews and poetry circulated to members of the Poetry Society.

Each Members' Poems competition is judged by a professional poet. Judges have included Luke Kennard, Carrie Etter and David Wheatley.

The prize was established in 2004 by Sheena and Hugh Canham, in memory of their son, Hamish Canham (1962 – 2003).