Ver Poets Open Competition 2012

This competition is now closed. Results will be posted in July

For full details, rules and entry form click

 here  

Adjudicator: Mimi Khalvati

Closing Date: April 30th 2012

Prizes: 1st – £600

               2nd – £300

               3rd – £100

 Plus anthology of winning and selected poems – The Ver Prize 2012

Entry Fee: £4 per poem, 3 poems for £10, £2 per poem thereafter

Poems are invited on any theme up to 30 lines. Two copies of each poem please accompanied by entry form and correct fee made payable to Ver Poets. Entries to Competitions Secretary, 181 Sandridge Road, St Albans, AL1 4AH. Anthologies can be ordered in advance – £4 plus 50p post and packaging. Copies of The Ver Prize 2011 are also available at the same price.

Scroll down for results and winning poems in last year’s competition

About the Judge:

Mimi Khalvati has published seven collections with Carcanet Press, including  The Meanest Flower (2007), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Her most recent collection, Child: New and Selected Poems 1991-2011 is a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.  Mimi is the founder of The Poetry School, where she teaches, and was the Coordinator from 1997-2004. She was poet in residence at the Royal Mail and has held fellowships with the Royal Literary Fund at City University, at the International Writing Program in Iowa and the American School in London. Her awards include a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors, a major Arts Council Award and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

 

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For members only – Competition now closed

For a full list of results click here

To read the winning poems click the links:

First Prize – Brighton Sunset by Finola Holiday

Second Prize – Bus to Auschwitz by Martin Eggleton

Second Prize – Midsummer Blues by Pat Watson

Many thanks to Laura Garratt for her adjudication and to Clare Allen for her illustrations

 

THE VER POETS OPEN COMPETITION 2011

Adjudicator: Martyn Crucefix

Results

  Prize winners listed below. Click on link to read the poem. For full list of commended and selected poems, please click here  

First Prize: Last Sight of Home by John Hussey

Second Prize: So what is this I make a sorrow of by Roger Elkin

Third Prize : A Short Manhattan Lullaby, 1939 by Wendy Klein

Young Writers’ Prize: Lather by Phoebe Walker

Copies of the competition anthology, The Ver Prize 2011, containing all selected poems and the adjudication report by Martyn Crucefix, can be ordered by sending a cheque, made payable to Ver Poets, for £4 plus 50p post and packaging to :

Competitions Secretary, 181 Sandridge Road, St Albans, Herts, AL1 4AH

 

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