News at Eleven: It is surprising then that 18-year-old Imogen Halstead,

of Northampton, won first place in the open category of this year's competition, and more so, that she triumphed with Amores I.I, by Ovid, which Jo Balmer, a judge, described as containing "notoriously difficult metrical, mythological and literary in-jokes". Indeed, the central joke of the poem relies on the audience's knowledge that epic Latin poetry was written in heavy, dactylic hexameter and love poetry in snappier, elegiac couplets.

from The Times: An 18-year-old wins the prestigious Times Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation

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