Competitions
Ver Poets Open Competition 2008
Entries are invited for this competition.Closing date: 30th April 2008
Adjudicator: Maggie Butt.
Line limit: 30 lines
Prizes:
FIRST PRIZE £500
SECOND PRIZE £300
THIRD PRIZE £100
YOUNG WRITERS PRIZE £100
Entry fees:
£3 for each poem, 4 poems for
£10, £2 per poem thereafter
Adjudication: TBA Part of St Albans Festival 2008.
Please send SAE marked ‘Results’ if you would like to receive the list of winning and short-listed entries.
Please write your name, address and contact telephone number, together with the titles of the poems submitted, on a separate page and send your entry with a cheque payable to ‘Ver Poets’ and two copies of each poem to: ‘Competitions’ Secretary’, 181, Sandridge Road, St Albans AL1 4AH by 30th April, 2008. If you also wish to join Ver Poets, please send cheque and membership application with your entry.
Please download an application form to accompany your entry, if you do not already have a form.
Results 10 Liners 2007
First Prize Photo
by Laura Garratt
Joint Second Prize Hawthorn by Maggie Cain
Joint Second Prize Stigliano by Martin Eggleton
Commended Imprecations by Duncan Gardiner
Family
Sampler by Nancy Rutherford
Virginia
Creeper by Pat Watson
Mammogram
by Anna Avebury
Selected Remembrance by Laura Garratt
Modern
Life by Helen Lovelock-Burke
Pebble
on
The Man in the Moon by Daphne Schiller
Oldies by Rosemary Bosworth
Duel by Maggie Cain
Dunblane by Maggie Cain
Reflections
on Having a
May by Diana Pritchard
Worldly Goods by Nancy Rutherford
Tribute by Pat Watson
Towards the End of the Year by Margaret Banthorpe
Lunch Raid by Anna Avebury
Sculpting Class by Martin Eggleton
Liebe in Wein by Rosemary Lynne Grant
Photo
Just
the one shot left.
Laughing,
I said,
‘Let
me take one of you.’
You
looked up from your digging,
Smiled
at my foolishness,
Wasting
my film on such a moment.
Now
that picture sits in every room,
You,
with your old blue shirt, your stout boots,
Your
strong hands resting on the spade.
Laura Garratt
Follow this link to skip to Results, John Cotton's Ten Liners 2006
Open Competition 2007
Results
First Prize £500
Washington Avenue Bridge, Minneapolis by Tom BryanSecond Prize £300
Maybe This is a Way.. by Matt BrightThird Prize £100
Gasoline by Ryan Van WinkleCommended:
Love on a cold night by Judith AllnattA Reasonable Question … by Pat Borthwick
Prayer by Charles Evans
Walking The Bear by Mandy Haggith
Chickens by Doreen King
Fishophile by Chris Kinsey
Over by Robin Maunsell
Clearing Snow by Margaret Speak
Us by Barry Tempest
Last night, I should have driven.. by Ryan Van Winkle
A Detective Shines his Shoes by Rik Wilkinson
Selected:
Of Words and Apples by Judith AllnattA guest at the Abbey by Anna Avebury
Two settings of A.E. Houseman by Aidan Baker
Jacqueline by Carole Coates
This Business by Tom Cunliffe
The Pianist by James Dufficy
Old Home by Alan Dunnett
The Jay of Kinnoull Hill by Duncan Fraser
Rue du Marais, Bruxelles 1966 by John Hubbard
Bride of Midas by Judith Kazantzis
The Mirror by Doreen King
Watching the Window Cleaner by Chris Kinsey
It’s Not Even Mad Friday by Chris Kinsey
My House is Dissolving by Chris Kinsey
Return to Blakeney by Jane Lovell
Split Time by Helen Lovelock-Burke
June Drop by Dorothy Pope
You always tell me by Ruth Smith
Blossom and Blues by Margaret Speak
An Interior by Margaret Speak
Utrecht by Barry Tempest
Stratford 16th October 2004 by Judy Ugonna
An Alphabetical Love Story by Rik Wilkinson
Portrait Photographer’s Portrait by Mick Wood
Tell Me by Mick Wood
Footings by Michael J Woods
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Gillian Knibbs
Results, John Cotton's Ten Liners
John Cotton’s Ten-Liners 2006
Follow the link to read the prize-winning poem.
First Prize: Parable by John Denham
Second Prize: The Orange Seller by Rosemary Bosworth
Second Prize: Memorial in York Minster by Laura Garratt
Highly Commended:
In Any Case by John Denham
Commended:
Praise of Cliches by Duncan Gardiner
Moving In by Maire Owens
Selected for the anthology:
Tragedy by WH PettySanctuary by Joan Fry
Notebooks by Duncan Gardiner
Atlantis by Duncan Gardiner
Silence by Duncan Gardiner
The Lie by Laura Garratt
Sundays by Anne Brook
Dusk by Patricia Healey
No New Dorian by Patricia Healey
First Confirmation Class by Patricia Healey
Depression '33 by Patricia Healey
Poets by Marjorie Baker
Rana Temporia by Mary Blake
It's Good To Talk by Peggy Poole
Carriage Collection by Daphne Schiller
Figure of a Lady, Tang Dynasty by Daphne Schiller
The Mali Mask by Daphne Schiller
That Afternoon by Roy Batt
To Zephyr by Eva Fitzpatrick
Postcolonial Hat- Louise Lotz
We are all stardust by Cynthia Kitchen
Black Prayer by Martin Eggleton
Midriffs by Martin Eggleton
Molten Marmalade by Martin Eggleton
Car Alarm - 3AM by Diana Pritchard
Shredder by Nancy Rutherford