Congratulations

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The following is from The Poetry Society's website regarding the recent National Poetry award.

National Poetry Competition winners announced

Congratulations to Roger Philip Dennis, who has won first prize with his poem ‘Corkscrew Hill Photo‘. Judged by Roddy Lumsden, Glyn Maxwell and Zoe Skoulding, the judges described it as a ‘stunning poem which mixes sweetness, sentiment, the visual and a touch of the grotesque’. Read more about it over on the National Poetry Competition page.

Congratulations, too, to Joanne Key, who won second prize with her poem ‘The Day the Deer Came’, and to Fran Lock, who won third prize for ‘Last exit to Luton’. You can watch film poems of the top three winning poems, commissioned in association with Alastair Cook and Filmpoem.

And, finally, congratulations to the eight commended poets:

Kevin Patrick McCarthy for ‘Enough Sky’
Beverley Nadin for ‘BEES’
Paul Nemser for ‘After the Calm’
Eliot North for ‘The Crab Man’
Mark Pajak for ‘Cat on the Tracks’
Jonathan Tel for ‘Ber Lin’
Jason Watts for ‘For a Liturgy’
Tom Weir for ‘Day Trippin

The Press Release about the winners is available online.

Great results all of which are highly recommended as are those of Love Reading 4 Kids Poetry Prize which only goes to show that poetry is for everyone but also Foyles Young Poet of the year award which this year goes to ...

The winning poet, awarded by the Judges is Celyn Gadd, age 8, of Oswald Road Primary School in Chorlton with his poem Plip Plop. Celyn also wins a visit to his school from National Poetry Day ambassador and award-winning poet Joshua Seigal, £250 of books for his school from National Book Tokens and an annual subscription to the gorgeous children’s magazine Scoop.

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