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Rotherham Poetry Competition
No details supplied for 2008. Contact Mark Scott on 01709 823641 for more information.
Rotherham Poetry Champion
This competition is not held in Rotherham but the organiser are looking for 'Poetry Champions' from towns across the UK. One poet will be chosen from the entries to represent each. So if you fancy yourself as a poet, entry is free. Winners will receive a free copy of the book, and the overall winner gets £1000. Closing date each year is 30th June.
Please send three unpublished poems (up to 20 lines or 160 words - well that's me b*****ed as virtually all my stuff is much longer than that) on any subject to United Press, Admail 3735, London, EC1B 1JB.
Pixel-ated Poems Competition 2008
Run in association with Rotherham Photographic Society who will post a selection of prints on their website. You are invited to submit poems inspired by the prints. Can't find any more details June 2008.
Some of my Works
One of my short poems if you are interested:-
Cynheidre
Cynheidre disaster: methane in the tunnels;
Heavy backblow through the mine and nine are dead.
Blows the siren at the minehead: white-faced women rush from houses,
As their mothers and grandmothers did before.
or another if you are a glutton for punishment:-
Refusnik
No bright machines will breathe for me,
Clean my blood when my kidneys fail,
Pump my heart when the beat is dead,
Maintain my brain when the thought is gone,
Keep my soul where I would not be.
There's more, much more.......