OPEN POETRY COMPETITION

2008

 promoted by

 LEICESTER POETRY SOCIETY

 Results

First Prize:  £200 : Roger Elkin of Stoke-on Trent for
‘There’s this memory’

 Second prize: £100 : James.D.Taylor of Rossendale for
‘Castaways’

Third Prize: £50 : Kate Rhodes of Cambridge for
‘Portrait of My Husband as a Silver Lining’

Runners-up (in alphabetical order ) were:

David Grubb of Henley-on-Thames for ‘The Mothers of Plaza del Mayo’

Gisela Hoyle of Leicester for ‘A thing divine’

Charles Lauder of Upper Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire, for ‘Entombed’

Lynn Roberts of Tunbridge Wells for ‘Tempus fugit ...’

Howard Wright of County Armagh for ‘True Colours’

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