Field Days
International Poetry Competition 1997
Results
First Prize David Hart (Birmingham) Naming the Field
Runners-up
Catherine Byron (Leicester) Minding You
Jane Draycott (Henley-on-Thames)
DigDavid Griffiths (Loughborough) Hill Farm
David Hart (Birmingham) Numbering the presences
James Turner (Exeter) What Holds This City Together
Commended by the judges
Stephen Duncan (London), The Call-in; Anthony Wilson (Exeter), His Training for the Mission Field Remembered; Susan Cross (Buxton), Stony Ground; Alan Chambers (London), The Dark Women; Matthew Barton (Oxford), Playing Field; Lynne Elson (Old Kidlington), Archaeological Dig, Willingham; Clare Crossman (Cumbria), The Field; Michael Wilkinson (Castleford), Eyes - Blue as the Earth That Circles in Black.
Short-listed
Katherine Banner (Darlington), Field Names; Anne Born (Salcombe), Geometric Field; Elizabeth Burns (Lancaster); Tim Cassidy (Saudi Arabia), After Rain and Dump; Susan Cross (Buxton), Gleanings; Carol Anne Coiffait (East Yorkshire), To the Area Formerly Known As Gunpits; Phil McKelliget (Ross-on-Wye), Field; B. Docherty (London), Panic at the Allotment; Sarah Dudman (London), Future Field; Judy Gahagan (London), Rape Fields; Pamala Gillilan (Bristol), Poppies near Argenteuil; Jean Hall (Lancaster), Already Into June; Vincenza Holland (Berwick-upom-Tweed), Hill Shepherds; Frances Hoyle (Faversham), What's in a Name?; Vera Kulkarni (South Shields), A Night in the Country; Jenny Lewis (Oxford), Dear Field; Kate Lishman (Penrith), The Cowfield; David Lyall (London), The Plough; John McAllister (Armagh), The Winnowing; Joan Michelson (London), Field; Kadija Sesay (London), Brooklyn Botanical Gardens; J Routh (Lancaster), Aporia; KV Skene (Swanage), Uphill From Here; Kenneth Steven (Scotland), The Wild Raspberries; Sandra Stevens (Bath), Come On (the calling of the cows); Brian Waltham (London), Set Aside; Barbara Wayne (Haywards Heath), Field: Hillfields Friary, Dorset; Tam Smith (London), Priestess; Michael Wilkinson (Castleford), Woman in a Field; Julie Ward (Bishop Auckland), The Mushroom Field and Old White Leas - proposed opencast mining site.
Award Evening
The competition winners will be presented with their prizes at an
award evening on Tuesday 7 April 1998 at 7.30pm. It will take place Upstairs at Golden Square Books, 16 Golden Square, London W1, which is near Piccadilly Circus Tube in central London. The bookshop is accessible to disabled people: it has a small step at the entrance and a lift to all floors. The evening is free and everyone is welcome to come and join in the celebration, so bring your family and friends. Short-listed poets are especially warmly invited.Finally, congratulations to those who were short-listed, commended or placed and a big thank you to the huge number of you who entered the competition. You obviously found fields an inspiration to your poetry and we hope that you enjoyed taking part. Look out for David's poem in the May issue of Resurgence, and his reading on Radio 4 on Saturday 7 March.