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Hastings International Poetry Competition 2009
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The Winners of the 2008 competition are:
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First Prize
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Come Coop-A-Lou
My Lovely Girls
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Pamela Trudie Hodge
Plymouth
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Second Prize
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Valentine's Day is Over
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Andy Humphrey
York
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Third Prize
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The Queen Bee Speaks
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Roger Elkin
Stoke
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Fourth Prize
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When The Fat Lady Sings
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Mike Gwynne, London
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Highly Commended:
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A Dream of Damsons
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Diana Littlepage
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Exeter
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Little Speckled Coverlets
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Peter Asher
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Scunthorpe
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How are you now, poor child
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Dorothy Pope
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Harrow
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Cedar Cliffs
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Ruth Hill
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British Columbia, Canada
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The Decade Selves
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Sheila Grundy
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Shrewsbury
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I was born
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Richard W. Halperin
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Paris
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Snap
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David Underdown
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Isle of Arran
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Whoever she may be
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Sally Pryne
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Sheringham, Norfolk
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Remembering Love
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Richard Labram
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New Forest, Hampshire
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Old Blue China
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Clare Shelton Jones
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Brighton
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Florida to Findhorn
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Eileen Carney Hulme
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Forres, Scotland
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To a Willow Tree
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Joan Aubrey
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Southampton
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Bruised Fruit
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Carolyn King
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Isle of Wight
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Roots
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Angela Bradley
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Yorks
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Has Anyone Seen my Mind
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Mala Mason
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London
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White Chaos
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Ingrid Riley
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Canterbury
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Silent Dreams
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Martin J. Woodfine
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St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex
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Umbrella Land
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Steve Gunning
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Stevenage, Herts
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Wales
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John Feakins
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Eastbourne, East Sussex
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The Ride of Her Life
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Joanne Feltham
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Radolfzell, Germany
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The competition is adjudicated by Josephine Austin L.G.S.M.
Editor of "First Time" and recipient of the Dorothy Tutin Award
for Services to Poetry 1986.
Cash Prizes of £150, £75, £50 and £25.
The winners will be published in 'First Time' Spring Issue 2010.
RULES
1, Entrants must be Aged 18 or over.
2, Competitors may enter as many poems as they wish.
3, No poem must exceed 50 lines in length.
4, Previously published poems are ineligible.
5, Poems will be neither acknowledged nor returned unless a stamped addressed envelope is enclosed.
6, Poems must not bear the name of the author which should appear on the entry form.
7, Each poem must be accompanied by an entry fee of £2 .00. Cheques / Postal Orders should be made payable to J. Austin.
8, This form may be photocopied.
9, The closing date for entries is 10th October 2009.
10, The winning 4 poems will be announced and read at the Hastings International Poetry Festival on 24th October 2009 by Joesphine Austin.
Entry Form
To download an entry form, please "right-click" on the link below and select "Save Target As". You can then print it out and post it.
>> Entry Form << (Microsoft Word Format)
Alternatively, you can contact Josephine by clicking here.
©: Copyright Josephine Austin 2003
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