Competitions
Please scroll down for results of the Ver Poets Open 2009 and the Duncan Gardiner Competition for Rhymed Poetry 2009JOHN COTTON'S TEN-LINERS 2009
For Members Only
A competition for poems of up to ten lines (excluding the title)Adjudicator: Frances Wilson
Frances is a member of Ver Poets and an organiser of Ware Poets. She is a wonderful poet and artist making her the perfect choice of judge for a competition which has illustrated poem cards as its prize. She has published three collections of poetry: Where the light gets in, Close to Home and Rearranging the Sky
Closing Date: November 30th 2009
Entry Fee: £2 per poem
Prizes: 1st prize - 100 illustrated poemcards
2nd and 3rd prize - 50 illustrated poemcards
PLUS publication of winning and selected poems in an anthology ( subject to sufficient entries)
Adjudication - Friday February 19th 2010, 8pm at St Michaels Parish Centre
To enter please send two copies of each poem, with your contact details and titles of poems on a separate sheet, accompanied by a cheque for the appropriate fee made 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 HolidaySecond 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.
VER POETS OPEN COMPETITION 2009 - Results
First Prize: Some Boys by Will DauntSecond Prize: The Sound of Houses by John Ringrose
Third Prize: Johnny Two Wellys by Mathew Oswald-Hagget
Young Writers Prize: The Third Star to the Left by Anthony Adler
Highly Commended:
I've had this dream by Ami Roseingrave
The Mysterious Disappearance of Robert Parks by C.J.Allen
Panther in the City by Colin Pink
Commended:
Where does the soul go when it goes? by Richard W.Halperin
Beggars by Alan Dunnett
I'm thirteen and trapped in a caravan by Pauline Plummer
Selected:
My Pants by Charles Evans
By Telephone by Derrick Porter
The Ghost of Dead Sheep by Mathew Oswald-Haggett
Rainbows by Sharon Black
The Last Race by Alan Dunnett
Sauter Le Pas by John Denham
The party, let it be over by Ann Alexander
Here by Tom Vaughan
Threnody by Joan Sheridan Smith
A First Love by Jenny Morris
A life gone awry by David Winston Lee
Unrequited by Louise Wilford
Labour of Love by Graham Anderson
Twenty to Nine by Peter Toben
Euston Again by Martin Eggleton
That Strain Again, it had a Dying Fall by Lisa Kelly
The Spiffle-Micker by Christopher J.Delaney
Pole to Pole by Carolyn King
Hillbark by Sue Chadd
Intensive Care by Duncan Brewer
Casting the Spell by Carrie Gent Drummond
Sue's Shoes by David Van-Cauter
Pollyanna by Kaye Lee
Walter T. by Dennis Tomlinson
Decipherment and Revelation by Graham Anderson
Constructs by Aidan Baker
Time and Beyond Time by David Kabraji
Her publisher by Charlotte Gann
Fugue from 'Le Tombeau De Couperin' by Adrian Buckner
Music Before Bedtime by John Grove-Stephensen
Many thanks to John Whitworth for his adjudication. The Ver Prize 2009 contains all the above poems and John Whitworth's report. Copies can be ordered by sending a cheque for £4, made payable to Ver Poets, to 181 Sandridge Road, St Albans, Herts, AL1 4AH
John Cotton's Ten Liners 2008 Results
First Prize Blank Inside by John HusseySecond Prize Confidence trick by Selwyn Veater
Second Prize June Night, Finland by Susan Skinner
Commended Poems:
Degrees of Recognition by Nancy Rutherford
Lake Kathlyn B.C. by Diana Pritchard
Ebbtide by Daphne Schiller
Nocturne by Pat Watson
Selected Poems:
Like by Marguerite Wharton
The Prince in Winter by John Grove-Stephensen
Dread by Hannah Kelly
Spring Meadow by Bob Niblett
Indestructible by Penelope Cutler
Silverfish by Juliet Troy
Down by Martin Eggleton
First Kiss by Sewlyn Veater
Home Town by Terry Jones
Old Men Who Dig by Marguerite Wharton
Train Northward by Diana Pritchard
Lupa by Christopher J. Delaney
Return to the Garden by Ruth Partington
Lost in Translation by Rosemary Bosworth
It rains all day by Diana Pritchard
Mother came in Spring by Selwyn Veater
Career by WH Petty
Many thanks to Roy Batt for judging the competition and to Clare Allen for illustrating the winners.
