Lesley Saunders has won the 2016 Stephen Spender prize for translation for Poem by Maria Teresa Horta, translated from the Portuguese. Writing in the Guardian, one of the judges, Sean O’Brien, described it as a “witty, erotic piece. As with Ted Hughes’s ‘The Thought-Fox’, an animal is the intermediary, but Horta’s poem has a degree of amused relish which is all her own.” Full results

The news of Saunders’s win came as she was appearing at Poetry in Aldeburgh in the Peter Pears Gallery on Saturday morning with fellow Two Rivers Press poets Claire Dyer and Susan Utting in High Wire Act, an inaugural reading by the three poets based on the theme of flight.