Competitions

Posted by vpadmin on October 11, 2009

VER POETS OPEN COMPETITION 2010 RESULTS

First Prize:	Hat and Pan by Peter Daniels
Second Prize:	Suibhne’s Last Song by Terence Brick
Third Prize:	Gin Lane by Lynn Roberts
Young Writers Prize:	Easter Morning by Katie Hale
Highly Commended:	Skin by Shirley Wright Home Thoughts by Frank McDonald  Lunchtime with Eros by Lynn Roberts  Closed Joel by David Shackleton (young writer)
Commended:	Lost Property by Jacqueline Saphra Sigríður Tómasdóttir by Liz Cashdan  Achilles in Helmand by Josh Ekroy  Od 2 a mob fone by Dan Mussett (young writer)

Selected: 3000 Susans by David Phillips Download by Joan Michelson Mules by Maitreyabandhu Blackbird by Roger Elkin Such Splendid Youth by Malcolm Watson Luftwaffe Bomb Kills 34 by Annie Chance Cable Car by Peter Daniels Suibhne Considers Ronan’s Curse by Terence Brick Lucky Sterry’s Burma by Pat Murgatroyd Port Selda by Tim Love Blue Hyacinths by Anna Wigley Almira’s Story by Derrick Porter Here in the East by Marcus Smith Spilled Peas by Vanessa Gebbie The House We Didn’t Buy by Val Taylor Hoar Fox by Gareth Alun Roberts A Photograph of My Great Grandmother by Jennifer Watson First Sight by Maitreyabandhu A Young Person’s Guide to the 2nd World War by Phil Powley Werewolves of Ilkley by C.J.Allen Keeping an Eye by Chris Hardy The Topiary Garden by Margaret Speak The Old Life by Lisa Hitchen Custard by Jonathan Davidson It Wasn’t a Cold Call by Pat Murgatroyd The Last Pages of a Citroën 2CV by Graham Burchell Sign Language by David Van Cauter Thirteenth Day by Pat Jackson

 

  Copies of the competition anthology, The Ver Prize 2010, containing all the above poems and the adjudication report by Anne Berkeley 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

 The Duncan Gardiner Prize for Rhymed Poetry 2010 

For Members Only 

For rhyming poems of any length, in any form.

Adjudicator, Daphne Schiller

Entry fee: £2 per poem. Half of proceeds donated to SPRING, Parkinson’s Disease Research Society.
 1st Prize: £50 2nd Prize: £30, 3rd Prize: £20 

Prize winners will also receive a year’s subscription to Acumen Poetry Magazine.

 Closing date: 31st July 2010
Send to Competition Secretary, 181 Sandridge Road, St Albans AL1 4AH

 

JOHN COTTON’S TEN-LINERS 2009 – Results

For Members Only 

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. 

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