National Poetry Competition has its youngest ever winner

At 19, Eric Yip scoops the £5,000 prize for his personal and political work, Fricatives. Read his ‘immensely ambitious and beautifully achieved poem’ here

A 19-year-old economics student from the University of Cambridge has become the youngest person to ever win the National Poetry Competition.

Eric Yip, who is from Hong Kong, won for his poem Fricatives, which plays with ideas about language to also comment on colonialism, race, migration, belonging and the guilt of leaving one’s home behind.