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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 Chesil Beach by Daphne Schiller

                                    The Man in the Moon by Daphne Schiller

                                    Oldies by Rosemary Bosworth

                                    Duel by Maggie Cain

                                    Dunblane by Maggie Cain

                                    Reflections on Having a Perm… by Peggy Unsworth

                                    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 Bryan

Second Prize £300

Maybe This is a Way.. by Matt Bright

Third Prize £100

Gasoline by Ryan Van Winkle

Commended:

Love on a cold night by Judith Allnatt
A 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 Allnatt
A 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

Anthologies may be ordered by sending a cheque for £4, made payable to Ver Poets, to 181 Sandridge Road, St Albans, Herts, AL1 4AH.
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 Petty
Sanctuary 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

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