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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John Miles said,
A well designed site easy to navigate – thanks.
The 30 line limit for competition poems is too restrictive. Most sites allow 40. Some poets – and I am such – require more space to express their ideas.
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