Blue Nose Poetry

Poets-of-the-Year Competition 1997/8

Winners, Commended and Short-listed Poets

Winners

Priscilla Borthwick Feeding the Bi-valve £250

Denise McSheehy We Might Have Been Underwater £200

Annemarie Austin The Indigo Boat £100

Lynne Wycherley Borderland £100

Runners Up

Deborah Chivers Me £75

Polly Clark Zoo £75

Highly Commended

Denise McSheehy His Milky Body in the Early Morning £40

Stephanie Norgate Roof Room £40

Mandy Precious Risen £40

Melvyn Rust My Father's Glasses £40

Patrick Yarker World's Possession £40

Commended

Liz Almond The Shut Drawer; Michael Curtis Seretonin Days; Lynne Wycherley My Heart A Red Salmon; Miriam Obrey The Angel and the Internet; Helen Oswald Chilled.

Short-listed

Denise Bennett Last Wish; Maeve Bhavan Sri Lanka Unsettled; Roy Blackman Not Long Now; Gerry Byrne Hydrochromophobia; Catherine Byron Coffin, Crypt, Consumption; Deborah Chivers You; TE Dowley Clues; Clive Eastwood Fly; Michael Foley Many Blossoms and Even Some Ripe Fruit; David Ford Stations; Cliff Forshaw Verb Sap; Philip Foster Singular; Harry Garlick The Edge of the Map; SD Giles Four Years Six Months; Nicolette Golding Following the Bear and also The Oldest Dress; Constance Hayball Cretan Peasants; Miriam Obrey Day of the Harpsichord; Raul Peschiera The Shining Path; Norman Schwenk Llandaff Walk; Diane Tang Blanket Death; Sandra Tappenden Dirty Work; Madeleine Wurzburger Sacred, Scared.

Award Reading

Winners and highly commended poets will read at an award event in London on Tuesday 29 September (starts 7.30pm) at the regular Blue Nose venue: Golden Square Books, 16 Golden Square, London W1 (Piccadilly tube). Because this event is special, admission is free, so please bring along your friends and family. Commended and short-listed poets are especially invited to attend.

Competition Anthology

An anthology, Feeding the Bi-valve, featuring the work of the winning and highly commended poets will be launched at the award evening. You can also order a copy (£3.50 including p&p) from Blue Nose Poetry, 61 Athelstan House, London E9 5PH.

 

For an entry form for the 1998/9 Blue Nose Poet-of-the-Year Competition (closing date: 10th April 1999), click here.

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