Leaf Books Poetry 2008 Competition – Winners

We’re well pleased to announce the results of the Poetry 2008 Competition.

Winner:

‘Standing on the Cast-Iron Shore’ by Kathy Miles

Runners up:

‘Caliban’s Dream’ by Clare McCotter

‘The Wall Menders’ by Kate Noakes

Commended:

‘Dragons’ by Kathy Miles

‘Sledging’ by Chloe Balcomb

‘Olivetti’ by Liz Cashdan

‘Sunday’ by Sara Ridgley

‘Homes’ by Joan Michelson

‘Hierarchies of Art’ by Leah Armstead

‘Relaxation CD’ by Leah Armstead

‘Cabin Fever’ by Leah Armstead

‘Escape’ by Leah Armstead

‘Waiting for a Friend’ by Leah Armstead

‘The Future’ by Emily Hinshelwood

‘Swimming Lesson’ by Keith Shaw

‘About the House’ by Anthony Watts

‘Last Day of the Holidays’ by Pat Borthwick

‘Whale Watch’ by Pat Borthwick

‘My Neighbour’s Myna’ by Pat Borthwick

‘Serving Abroad’ by Sue Anderson

‘Our First Day’ by Sarah L. Dixon

‘Reined-In’ by Jenny Morris

‘Father’ by Susan Groom

‘Son of the Soil’ by Margaret Eddershaw

‘New Town’ by Sarah Smith

‘The Night Boatman’ by Oz Hardwick

‘The Coming on the First Caliph (July, 1941)’ by Owen Lowery

‘Mapped Out’ by Sally James

‘Flight of Imagination’ by Aileen Lobban

‘Morning Milk’ by David Underdown

‘Macadamia Nut Steamers’ by Julie Bolitho-Lee

‘Uncle Albert’ by Tracey S. Rosenberg

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Congratulations to all of the above, and better luck next time to those who were not successful. The competition anthology, Standing on the Cast-Iron Shore and Other Poems, will go into production very shortly.

A note to the featured poets: you’ve all been contacted individually by now, but if for some reason this is the first you’ve heard of it, please check the inbox of whatever email address you gave us when you entered the competition. If you don’t find an email notifying you of your success, please get in touch with us at contact@leafbooks.co.uk.

Sam.

Just so as you know type thing ...

... the Poetry 2008 Competition has been judged and all the winners barring two who didn't provide email addresses were informed this morning. If you're a poet who did provide an email address and you haven't received notification of success, better luck next time. If you're a poet who didn't provide an email address, you may perhaps get an exciting letter in the post. But then again, if you don't have an email address, you're unlikely to be reading this blog.

We'll give the winning poets the next couple of days to check their emails and go 'ooh' and the like, and then we'll release the results on Monday. Hurrah.

It really is upsettingly windy out there.

Sam.

Imagine Coal/Mostly Life

O Readers,

Imagine Coal and More Micro-Fiction came back from the printers this morning. The book will shortly be on sale via our website - it costs £9.99 per copy, plus £1 p&p, or £7 if you're one of its authors (though still with the £1 p&p). Please note that free copies have already been despatched to the authors (with the exception of two for whom we didn't seem to have postal addresses: check your email), so hopefully those should be with you in the next few days. Or after Easter at any rate.

Also www.mostlylife.com is live.

Sam.

To Do.

Mondays generally kick off with the composition of a 'Things to Do' list. Here are some select highlights, as I suppose highlights by definition have to be, of what the Leaf Team expects to be doing during the week commencing March 10th:

- add more charming and brilliantly patient Leaf Authors to the authors page on the website;
- photocopy some forms with numbers on them for some people or other;
- answer the accountant's unkind and unduly inquisitive email;
- continue work on the typesetting of The Someday Supplement;
- finish putting up the Mostly Life website;
- judge the poetry competition;
- unhook the cat from the noticeboard;
- consume a banana;
- write a blog post.

I'm going to put a tick next to that last one.

Probably the blog post is supposed to have more profound content therein than the information that a blog post was due to be written. Which it undeniably was. And I suppose our most interesting news is that the Mostly Life website, as featured in the middle of our 'To Do' list, is in the process of going online. The entire text site is live and functioning and housing the winners of our Spoof and Humour competition, which will also be published in the hardcopy anthology, The Someday Supplement, and the graphical site is sort of partially there. It's a sizeable job and a work of genius, mostly, but yes. It's properly on its way. You can access both versions from the landing page, which is at www.mostlylife.com. You can enter the Mostly Life Competition from there as well, whereby we invite you to submit funny stuff of all descriptions. Full details on the competition page. It's the most predictable thing about that website.

Ceci's currently felling the accountant and I'm halfway through the banana.

In other news, there's a bit of storm on its way, and we're slightly in a forest, so if you fail to hear from us in a month or two, send rescue. It's actually just monsooning at present. We can cope with that. Leaf's getting along very nicely, thank you. We're typesetting The Someday Supplement, as we say, and we have some private printing jobs in the offing and the poetry's going to be judged and announced by the end of the month and the cat hasn't actually eaten any drawing pins at all this morning. It's t'riffic.

Also today we have a work experience person with us, experiencing work. Please give him a wave. And write to tell us you've done so. We don't much hallucinate here.

Sam.