The 12th international Poetry Competition is now closed and poems are with adjudicators. Results early July or before. There were 521 poems entered, 101 in the Formal category, 148 in the Short poems category and 272 Open.
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Poems must not have been printed or published (including on internet magazines but if on a personal or friend's blog only, that's ok) or have won a previous prize. Entrants must be over 16 years old on 1st January 2012.
3 Categories:
Open (max.60 lines), adjudicator Gillian Clarke, Welsh National Poet Formal (max 40 lines) adjudicator Carole Baldock, editor of Orbis
Short (max 10 lines) adjudicator Christopher North, who runs poetry courses at Almassera Vella, www.oldolivepress.com Suggested but not obligatory theme: 'Beast-ly' Interpret as wished.
Each adjudicator will read all the poems in his/her category.
N.B.: Open category embraces all forms of poems providing they do not exceed 60 lines; free verse, traditional or formal verse - anything goes!
Formal category: traditional verse forms: sonnets, sestinas,ballards,haiku (up to five haiku on one page count as one entry) villanelles etc or your own rhyming or metrical scheme
Prizes: overall winner: Silver Wyvern and €400 Please note: the overall winner will be chosen from the winners of all three categories Two prizes of €200 each to winners of other two categories.
Three runners-up prizes (one in each category) of €100 each Prizewinners who come in person will also receive, besides the cash prize, an object of design awarded by Alessi
EXTRA: 10 minute readings at Celebration for all prizewinners present and the first three poems in the Formal category will be offered publication in Orbis..
Fees: Sterling: UK cheques and BPOs: postal entries: £6 per poem; email entries: £7 per poem Euros: postal entries € 7.50 per poem; email entries €8.50 per poem
Dollars: $10 per poem
Email entries (preferably as Word attachments) to poetryonthelake (at) yahoo.co.uk:
Critique service: £15 or €20 or $ 25 or per poem, max 40 lines.
Payment:
UK & Italy: cheques, or BPOs crossed, only, payable to G.Griffin-Hall (NOT to Poetry on the Lake), or pay through Paypal (button below).
Euroland: euro notes wrapped in silver foil or Paypal
USA/ROW pay Paypal: calculate total fee, click button Donate, thern enter amount on Paypal page.
(A liitle extra, as support of Poetry on the Lake, will be much appreciated)
n.b. you can pay Paypal and send poems by post or by email.
No entry form required. Postal entries: Send2 copies of each poem, mark category top right; one copy anonymous, otherwith contact details, email, fee sent, on the back!. If via email, preferably send as Word attachments, one anonymous copy of each poem, with contact details in body of email. Usual competition rules apply.
Do not send SAE. We will send results to winners July at latest and they will be on website. Those who wish results by post please add £3 (€5, $10).
The same poem may be entered in two or more categories but will count each time as a separate entry. A competitor may win 2 or 3 prizes, each in a different category, but no more than one prize in a single category. Results on site July, winners contacted beforehand.
Possible publication for winning and selected poems (we try to contact all authors first, although entry to the competition implies automatic permission to publish). Copyright remains with the author.
Awards in the autumn, with reading of winners & commended.
SEND TO: Poetry on the Lake, Isola San Giulio, 28016 Orta NO, Italy. (n.b. please use correct postage for Italy and seal envelopes securely), or email poetryonthelake (at) yahoo.co.uk
Last postmark accepted 15th April, last date for email midnight 15th April 2012
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Poetry on the Lake 11th International Competition 2011- RESULTS
SILVER WYVERN WINNER
The song of the woman who wanted a train
Diana Pooley, London
OPEN COMPETITION
RUNNER-UP: Fossil record - Wayne Price, Aberdeen COMMENDED Lithium lovesong - Lydia Macpherson, Babraham Black Book of Warwick – Lynne Wycherley, Kidlington
Sold - Pat Borthwick, Kirby Underdale
The Gift - Sharon Black, St André de Valborgne
SHORT COMPETITION
WINNER: Inclined to envy woodlice – Chris Considine, Plymouth RUNNER-UP: Returning - Donna Pucciani, Illinois , USA
COMMENDED And then; Gill McEvoy - Chester
The place of stones - Tim O’Leary - London
Agata and aphrodisiac - Derek Sellen, Canterbury
The vixen - Susi Clare, Travedona Monate
FORMAL COMPETITION
WINNER: Laying the foundation stone - Don Nixon, Albrighton
RUNNER-UP: Terra - Anne Ballard, Hornsey
COMMENDED Innocents awhirl - Mira Mehta, London
A black-suited revolution - Peter Goulding, Dublin
New Year - A C Clarke, Glasgow
Days like trees - Polly Walshe, Oxford
YOUNG WYVERN (only for 2011)
we had no section for young poets but there were a number of under 16's who submitted poems to the main competition. So we decided to treat and judge them separately. We shall not accept entries from under 16s in 2012.
winner: Lamorna Tregenza-Reid (age 10) with 'Her Thinking Hand'
Commended:
Lucia K Chen – ‘The Fisherman’s Dawn’
Joy Lalicata – ‘We had a fight with stones’
Stella Lalicata – ‘The Stones and the Clones’
Angelica Poversky ‘If hearts were made of stone’
Lin Wang ‘Conversations with my immigrant mother’
Katherine Ward ‘ Rock and Stone’
congratulations to these young poets!
Thanks to all those who entered.
There were roughly 400 entries, of which 107 in the Short poems category and 68 in the Formal verse section.
The suggested (not obligatory) theme for all categories was 'Stone' and this wide-ranging theme seemed to inspire the majority of poems.
Awards and Celebration 23-25 September. More news and programme in due course.
Panel of adjudicators:
Don Paterson chose the winners of all three categories from lists drawn up by Anne Stewart and Oz Hardwick.
Categories: Open (max 60 lines) - Formal (max.40) - Short (max 10)
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(Click 'Donations' button and on Paypal page state amount)
Results of competition 2010
adjudicators: James Harpur, Carole Baldock, Kevin Bailey
The Awards were presented by H.M. Consul General Dr Laurence Bristow-Smith
on Saturday, 2nd October, in Sala Tallone, Isola San Giulio
during the course of the 10th International Poetry Celebration 1st-3rd October
Prizewinners who come in person also received, besides the cash prize, an object of design 'La stanza dello sciricco' awarded by Alessi
Silver Wyvern 2010
A Roman slave reflects on inevitability - Emma Harding,
Short poems
Archetypes - Lucius Redman
Formal poems An Ex Pat's Mediterranean Retirement Diary& The Hospice at Cannes - Don Nixon
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'From the Lake-side', writing on Lake Orta: won by D.M. Thomas with 'Singing Along'
