Competitions
Please scroll down for the results of John Cotton’s Tenliners 2009, The Duncan Gardiner Prize for Rhymed Poetry 2009 and Ver Poets Open Competition 2009
VER POETS OPEN COMPETITION 2010
Adjudicator: Anne Berkeley
Click here for full details and entry form: Ver poets open 2010 entry form
Closing date : April 30th 2010
First prize: £500
Second Prize: £300
Third Prize: £100
Young Writers Prize: £100
Entry Fee: £3 per poem, 4 poems for £10, £2 per poem thereafter
For poems on any theme of no more than 30 lines
Winning and selected poems published in the competition anthology The Ver Prize 2010 . Copies can be ordered (£4 plus 50p p&p)
TWO copies of each poem, typed on separate A4 sheets, with entry form (clink on link above) and payment (cheques made payable to Ver Poets, sterling only) to:
Competitions Secretary
181 Sandridge Road
St Albans
Herts
AL1 4AH
ABOUT THE ADJUDICATOR:
Anne Berkeley was born in Ludlow and grew up in Lincolnshire. Her collection The Men from Praga (Salt, 2009) chronicles a cold war childhood as the daughter of a navigator on a nuclear bomber. Previous publications include The buoyancy aid and other poems (Flarestack, 1997), and a selection in Oxford Poets 2002 (Carcanet). She was awarded a Hawthornden fellowship in 2004 and has won many prizes, including first prize in the TLS competition in 2000. She edited Rebecca Elson’s acclaimed posthumous collection A Responsibility to Awe (Carcanet, 2001) and is currently editor of the poetry journal Seam. She is one of the poetry group extraordinaire Joy of Six, with whom she has performed across the UK and in the USA.
JOHN COTTON’S TEN-LINERS 2009 – Results
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First Prize:
Power Vault by Daphne Schiller
Joint Second Prize:
Night Shades by Christopher Delaney
Callanish by A.C.Clarke
Commended:
Preview (at 12 weeks) by Margaret Banthorpe
Inspiration by Penelope Cutler
The Box of Many colours by Roy Batt
The London Aquarium by Christopher Delaney
Selected for the anthology:
Norfolk Winter by Laura Garratt
Spider by Laura Garratt
Shooting the Baboon by A.C.Clarke
Stag Beetle by A.C. Clarke
St Ives Bay by Pat Watson
Sail by Helen Lovelocke Burke
Still Tongues by Selwyn Veater
Habit by Selwyn Veater
Something Left by Val Taylor
Magic Mountain by Val Taylor
Longing by Val Taylor
Cat by Diana Pritchard
Who would be a hero? by Diana Pritchard
Whatever by Peter Smith
On the death of our baby son by Peter Smith
Border Crossing by Nancy Rutherford
De-titled by John Grove-Stephensen
All I know in Ten Lines by John Grove-Stephensen
Just In Case by Christopher Delaney
Snowman by Christopher Delaney
Sunflowers by Anna Avebury
Crystal by Heather Coffey
Many thanks to Frances Wilson for her adjudication and to Clare Allen for her illustrations.
Copies of the anthology are available and can be ordered by sending a cheque for £3 per copy, payable to Ver Poets, to
Competitions Secretary
181 Sandridge Road
St Albans
Herts
AL1 4AH
The Duncan Gardiner Prize for Rhymed Poetry 2009 Results
First Prize: Villanelle for Ken Saro-Wiwa by Finola Holiday
Second Prize: Flog It! by Nancy Rutherford
Third Prize: Traveller In The Glen by Rik Wilkinson
Commended: Old Porch by Cynthia Morris
Shortlisted:
The Truth About Love by Pat Watson
Translation by Bob Niblett
For One Who Made It by Mick Wood
Apron Strings by Marguerite Wharton
Blog Rap by David Van Cauter
Sonnet L by David Van Cauter
Thunderstorm by Laura Garratt
Front of House by Martin Eggleton
Many thanks to John Mole for his adjudication. £92 from the proceeds of the competition was donated to SPRING – the research arm of the Parkinsons Disease Society. The winning and commended poems will be published in Ver Poets Poetry World.
VER POETS OPEN COMPETITION 2009 – Results
First Prize:
Some Boys by Will Daunt
Second Prize:
The Sound of Houses by John Ringrose
Third Prize:
Johnny Two Wellys by Mathew Oswald-Hagget
Young Writers Prize:
The Third Star to the Left by Anthony Adler
Highly Commended:
I’ve had this dream by Ami Roseingrave
The Mysterious Disappearance of Robert Parks by C.J.Allen
Panther in the City by Colin Pink
Commended:
Where does the soul go when it goes? by Richard W.Halperin
Beggars by Alan Dunnett
I’m thirteen and trapped in a caravan by Pauline Plummer
Selected:
My Pants by Charles Evans
By Telephone by Derrick Porter
The Ghost of Dead Sheep by Mathew Oswald-Haggett
Rainbows by Sharon Black
The Last Race by Alan Dunnett
Sauter Le Pas by John Denham
The party, let it be over by Ann Alexander
Here by Tom Vaughan
Threnody by Joan Sheridan Smith
A First Love by Jenny Morris
A life gone awry by David Winston Lee
Unrequited by Louise Wilford
Labour of Love by Graham Anderson
Twenty to Nine by Peter Toben
Euston Again by Martin Eggleton
That Strain Again, it had a Dying Fall by Lisa Kelly
The Spiffle-Micker by Christopher J.Delaney
Pole to Pole by Carolyn King
Hillbark by Sue Chadd
Intensive Care by Duncan Brewer
Casting the Spell by Carrie Gent Drummond
Sue’s Shoes by David Van-Cauter
Pollyanna by Kaye Lee
Walter T. by Dennis Tomlinson
Decipherment and Revelation by Graham Anderson
Constructs by Aidan Baker
Time and Beyond Time by David Kabraji
Her publisher by Charlotte Gann
Fugue from ‘Le Tombeau De Couperin’ by Adrian Buckner
Music Before Bedtime by John Grove-Stephensen
Many thanks to John Whitworth for his adjudication. The Ver Prize 2009 contains all the above poems and John Whitworth’s report. Copies can be ordered by sending a cheque for £4, made payable to Ver Poets, to 181 Sandridge Road, St Albans, Herts, AL1 4AH