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Competitions

Open Competition 2008

Results

First Prize £500: Late One Afternoon by Duncan Brewer

Second Prize £300: The Rehabilitation Hobbies Room by Helen Burke

Third Prize £100: How to Read Minds by Ross Cogan

Young Writers Prize £100: Polyxena by JCH Potts

Highly Commended: Beechmast by Sara Ridgley

The Storm Inland by John Hussey

Alone by Diana Bishop

The Forester’s House by Mick Wood

Commended: Estonian has no future tense by Margaret Gleave

Book Club by Mark Hamilton

Suitcase by Tim Phillips

Fifteen by Patricia Lewis

Commended Young Writer:Birthday Letters by Anthony Adler

Selected Young Writers:

This is by Emma Booth

Cold Touch by Richard John Morley

The bottle of wine by Michael Hubbleday

The Room of Love by Matthew Maddock

Like A Child by Rebekah Cooper

Selected:

The cardigan by Lydia Macpherson

You Jumped by Debbie Cannon

Bolton is just like heaven by Jeremy Solnick

Chair by Pat Borthwick

Swallows by Valerie Morton

Forth-faring by Ama Bolton

Lost and Found by Geoff Bould

Sixty Years On by Vivien Hampshire

The Good German by Wendy Klein

Game Game by Roger Elkin

Waiting by Margaret Eddershaw

Fallow-Deer by Anne Cluysenaar

Snow-Viewing by Daphne Schiller

‘A Possible Perfection’ by Mandy Pannett

Bed Time Reading by Adrian Buckner

Missing Poet by Tom Bryan

Blondin Looks Down by C.J.Allen

Conjoined by Lydia Macpherson

The Puppeteer by Louise Warren

the big top by David King

Ecstasy in a Wesleyan Chapel by C.J.Allen

Women with a pearl earring by Thelma Laycock

The Things by Ross Cogan

Display Only by Mick Wood

At the Foreigners Club by Helen Burke

The Year the Measurements Changed by Barry Taylor

For his Islamic enthusiasm by John Gallas

Open Season by Duncan Brewer

Cape Winter by Duncan Brewer

Guard Duty by Duncan Brewer

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

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