Competition result
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.
Result of the Perform Poetry Competition 2012
David Humble for Turn of the Year
Shortlisted runners-up
Vinita Agrawal for Season of Partition
Lesley Burt for On IceMandy Pannett for Fine Detail
Highly Commended
S.M.Beckett
for Winter in
Caroni
Philip Burton for SeasonsSarah 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”
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