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Hastings International Poetry Competition 2007
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The Winners of this year's competition are:
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First Prize
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My Grandad
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Keith Shaw
Templecombe, Somerset
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Second Prize
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Diversion in Islington
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Clare Girvan
Exeter, Devon
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Third Prize
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Heartache
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Carolyn King
Ventnor, I.O.W.
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Fourth Prize
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Ice Palace
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Andy Humphrey
York
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Highly Commended:
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The Muse
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Mala Mason
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London, W.1
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"101"
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Mike Gwynne
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London E.13
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Just for a While
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R.A. Labram
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Hampshire
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Shifting Sand
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Ingrid Riley
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Canterbury
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Feral Pigeon
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Roger Elkin
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Stoke
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Silhouettes on a bus
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Simon Jackson
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Edinburgh
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Please pick up this poem
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James Findlay
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Grantham
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When the Moon Turns
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Eileen Carney Hulme
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Forres, Scotland
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Hurt Again
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Steve Gunning
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Herts
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Nature's Whisper
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Karen Jones
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Hants
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Virginia's Afternooon
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Cherry Barham
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Yorks
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I am (still) not a pigeon
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Martin J. Woodfine
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St. Leonards
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Yellow
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Pauline Hawkesworth
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Hants
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A Fobbed Watch
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Peter Asher
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N. Lincs
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Wasteland Butterfly
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Alison Craig
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London SE
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Seagulls
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Stacey Lane
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St. Leonards
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Metaphorphosis
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John Feakin
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Eastbourne
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Commended:
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Cancer's Season
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Nola McSweeney
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Hastings
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Smuggler
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Nigel Tubb
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Hastings
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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. and £50.
The winners will be published in 'First Time' Spring Issue 2009.
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 28th October 2008.
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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