For
poems of any length that respond to a poem written more than eighty years
ago.You can interpret this broadly but
we want to read modern poems that respond to the content of an earlier poem,
not a pastiche. Our competition will be
judged by the poet, Jim Bennett - www.poetrykit.org/jim.htm
1st Prize £100,
All shortlisted poems will be included in our ebook anthology "Revisited"
Poems
must be the entrant's own work and not have been published in print or on a website,
other than a workshop or critique platform.They must not be entered for any other competition, have previously won
a prize in any other competition, or be under consideration elsewhere.
The decision
of the judge is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
Entries
must be in English. They should use “seasons” as the theme, but as a theme it
is not intended to be proscriptive and it may be interpreted and used in any
way the poet wishes.Poems can be in any
style or poetic form or none.
Entry
£3.50 per poem; three poems £9; five poems £12
Entries
cannot be returned, fees cannot be refunded and alterations cannot be made once
entries have been submitted.
Obscene,
graphic or sexually explicit poetry will NOT be excluded unless it is gratuitous.
Poetry expressing racial, sexual or
any other form of prejudice will be excluded.
Entrants who do not comply with the entry rules
will be disqualified.
You will receive an email from the competition
administrator letting you know that the poems have been delivered safely and an immediate payment receipt
from Paypal.
Acceptance
of the rules is implied by entry.
A list of
prize winners and short listed entries will be published on this blog after the
closing date, 20th July 2013.
Your name, Address, Email address Names of the poems entered Transaction number of your PayPal payment
Please put your poem or poems into a single word file and attach them to your email.Ensure that there is no identifying name on your attachment or poems.
You can make your payment to enter here.
entry choices
The balance of entry fees over and above the prize money will be used to support our open floor events.
OUR JUDGE - JIM BENNETT
Jim Bennett lives near Liverpool in the UK and is the author of 69 books, including books for children, books of poetry and many technical titles on transport and examinations.
His poetry collections include; Drums at New Brighton (Lifestyle 1999) Down in Liverpool (CD) (Long Neck 2001) The Man Who Tried to Hug Clouds (Bluechrome 2004 reprinted 2006) Larkhill (Searle Publishing 2009)
The Cartographer /Heswall (Indigo Dreams 2013)
He has won many awards for his writing and performance including 3 DADAFest awards. He is also managing editor of www.poetrykit.org one of the worlds most successful internet sites for poets.
Jim taught Creative Writing at the University of Liverpool and now tours throughout the year giving readings and performances of his work. http://www.poetrykit.org/jim/index.htm
May I give my thanks to all entrants and congratulations to all those
selected for the short list and as highly commended by our judge, Jim
Bennett.
It now gives me pleasure to announce the result of the Perform Poetry
Competition 2012.
June
Result of the Perform Poetry Competition 2012
1st Place
David Humble for Turn of the Year
Shortlisted runners-up
Vinita Agrawal for Season of Partition
Lesley Burt for On Ice Mandy Pannett for Fine
Detail
Highly Commended
S.M.Beckett
for Winter in
Caroni
Philip Burton for Seasons Sarah
Doyle for
English Quartet Marilyn
Francis for Funeral Rag Ken Hoare for Autumn
Rambling Diane
Jackman for Moon over the orchard Noel King for Mid-Century Alwyn
Marriage for Flight at tide’s turning Patrick Osada for BLACK DOG Lynne
Taylor for Edges of autumn Judges report;
“The fourteen poems selected for the long list were all of a very high standard.
Although the poems represented a theme it was interpreted in many different ways by the poets who entered.The field was reduced to a shortlist of fourteen and from those four made it to a final selection from which the winner was chosen.
These four poems were
difficult to break up and it was only on the slimiest of margins that the
winner emerged. The winning poem had a haunting fairy tale quality
about it while at the same time painting a universal picture of the movement of
seasons and maintaining a strong element of the theme.All of the poems in the long list were of a
very high quality, and on another day with another judge any one of them could
have made the short list or indeed have won.It has been a great pleasure to read such wonderful poems and it is just
a shame that there could not have been many more winners”
Due to an error in some information we sent to a number of websites, the closing date has been shown in some places as 7th December. Because of this we have decided in the interest of fairness to extend the closing date to Midnight on 7th December 2012. We are sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused.
Closing 30th November
The Perform Poetry Magazine competition judged by Jim Bennett, poems on the theme "seasons" see the information on the post below.
Time
for the first competition we have ever held.For poems of any length on the theme of “seasons”. With a 1st prize of £100. Our competition will be judged by the poet,
Jim Bennett - see below. Poems
must be the entrant's own work and not have been published in print or on a website,
other than a workshop or critique platform.
The decision
of the judge is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
Entries
must be in English. They should use “seasons” as the theme, but as a theme it
is not intended to be proscriptive and it may be interpreted and used in any
way the poet wishes.Poems can be in any
style or poetic form or none.
Entry
£3.50 per poem; three poems £9; five poems £12
Entries
cannot be returned, fees cannot be refunded and alterations cannot be made once
entries have been submitted.
Obscene,
graphic or sexually explicit poetry will NOT be excluded unless it is
gratuitous.
Poetry expressing racial, sexual or
any other form of prejudice will be excluded.
Entrants who do not comply with the entry rules
will be disqualified.
You will receive an email from the competition
administrator letting you know that the poems have been delivered safely and an immediate payment receipt
from Paypal.
Acceptance
of the rules is implied by entry.
A list of
prize winners and short listed entries will be published on this blog after the
closing date, 30/11/12.
Your name, Address, Email address Names of the poems entered Transaction number of your PayPal payment
Please put your poem or poems into a single word file and attach them to
your email.Ensure that there is no
identifying name on your attachment or poems.
You can make your payment to enter here. The balance of entry fees over and above the prize money will
be used to support our open floor events.
OUR JUDGE - JIM BENNETT
Jim Bennett lives
near Liverpool in the UK and is the author of 69 books, including books for
children, books of poetry and many technical titles on transport and
examinations.
His poetry
collections include;
Drums at New
Brighton (Lifestyle 1999)
Down in Liverpool
(CD) (Long Neck 2001)
The Man Who Tried to
Hug Clouds (Bluechrome 2004 reprinted 2006)
Larkhill
(Searle Publishing 2009)
He has won many
awards for his writing and performance including 3 DADAFest awards. He is also
managing editor of www.poetrykit.org one of the worlds most successful internet
sites for poets.
Jim taught Creative
Writing at the University of Liverpool and now tours throughout the year giving
readings and performances of his work.
For the next edition of our email magazine we are looking for poems you thougfht would only work live in performance. RANTS, RAP and PERFORMANCE POEMS. Send your best offerings to oblivion to June Clitheroll jclitheroll@yahoo.co.uk Please send a short bio and your poems in a word attachment.
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