KENT AND SUSSEX POETRY COMPETITION 2009

 

Judge:  Penelope Shuttle

 

RESULTS:

 

 

1^st Prize:

THE TWINS’ HEADS

Anne Ryland

 

2^nd Prize:

FIVE MINUTES LATER 

Bill Greenwell

 

3^rd Prize:

TIFFANY

Mike Horwood

 

4 x Fourth Prizes

 

Ice Fair                       

Louise Wilford

 

Amit, his mark

Bryn Caless

 

Mushroom Gathering

Tom Bryan

 

The Lake

Kim Moore

 

 

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Nick MacKinnon                                   Gravity                                                

Jane Mallinder                                     The shop where you can’t buy           

Nina Soppitt                                         It was in Yugoslavia                            

Diana Mitchener                                  The Second Arrow                              

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Tim Lenton                                          Counting Water                                  

Nick MacKinnon                                   Gap                                                     

CJ Allen                                               Oaks                                                   

Philip Wright                                       News from Ealing                               

Geoff Strange                                      Bat                                                      

Leah Armstead                                    Bed Poem                                           

Elisabeth Rowe                                    Casting Off                                          

Doreen King                                        The Real Dream                                 

Elisabeth Rowe                                    Mind Lodes                                         

David Underdown                                Nest                                                    

Clare Best                                            At the old house                                 

John Gohorry                                       In the marais                                      

Michael W Thomas                              Pickings and Spoilings                       

Philip Burton                                       The Roost                                           

Judith Drazin                                       Regret                                                 

Clive Small                                          Encounter                                           

David Crann                                         The soprano’s husband                      

Michelle Lovric                                    Light                                                   

Michelle Lovric                                    Form                                                     

Gill McEvoy                                          In Red and White                                

Marion Ashton                                     On the turrets                                      

Ann Graal                                            Viper’s Bugloss                                   

Peter Wyton                                         Chimney Crazy                                   

AJ Stubbs                                            Time