Poetry Competition Results

What were we calling this one? Poetry Competition 2008 part II? 'Cause it's 2009 now. Anyway. Whatever it's called, I'm pleased to announce the results of it. You know the one I mean. It ended last October and now it's been judged and soon there'll be a book. Here are the answers. I mean results.

Winner:

'I Do' by Eloise Williams

Runner-up:

'Dancing with Delsie' by Sally James

Commended:

'Snapshot' by Francis Hayes
'Armchair revolutionary' by Francis Hayes
'Retired' by Francis Hayes
'Pants Outside, Trousers, Big Letter H On T Shirt, Here To Save The World' by Jonathan Pinnock
'Sandra and Me' by Catherine Edmunds
'sky' by Catherine Edmunds
'Motherlode' by Deborah Harvey
'How My Family Got Into South Africa' by Liz Cashdan
'Collecting Pieces of you in Boxes' by Jan Harris
'Tracing the Shape' by Alfie Bryman
'Lion' by Anthony Watts
'Against the Storm' by Leah Armstead
'In a Circle it Doesn't Matter' by Leah Armstead
'Convalescent Hill' by Kate Rhodes
'Irish Quartet' by Margery Forester
'The Keeper/Blackwater' by David Underdown
'Toaster' by Charles Evans
'Jess's Box' by Joanna Ezekiel
'Mendelssohn's Nose – 1939' by John Feakins
'Memory of my Father' by Christopher J Korta
'Personal Best' by Alan Dunnett
'Whisky' by Dorothy Fryd
'What Smruti Sees' by Jenny Morris


Congratulations to all of the above and commiserations to those who didn't make the list. Better luck next time (which means April). All of the above will be included in the competition anthology, which'll be called Dancing with Delsie and Other Poems. Keep an eye on the blog and the news page on the website for further information about the production of this anthology.

Our thanks to all who entered.