Judges past and present all agree: to give yourself a better chance to write a winning poem, you need to read other poets. A good place to find out all that's happening on the contemporary poetry scene is the Poetry Review
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In 1983, a then relatively unknown poet, Carol Ann Duffy, won the National Poetry Competition with her poem 'Whoever She was'.
Twenty-six years later she is now the Poet Laureate.
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Deadline: Saturday 31 October 2009
The winners will be published in Poetry Review, on the Poetry
Society website, in Aesthetica Magazine and also get the chance to
read at Ledbury Poetry Festival.
Daljit Nagra |
You can enter the competition online, download an entry form,
or send a SAE to Competition Organiser (web), 22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BX. Please note if you are paying by cheque, please print your address and phone number on the back of the cheque.
Our commissioned artwork for the National Poetry Competition 2009: the reading man is made out of the winning poems of 2008.
Artist: Tori Flower