Monday, January 28, 2013

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. 

 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