2013 Poetry Competition Results

Winners of the 2013 Poetry Competition Announced (2013-11-14 21:44:40)

Wally Smith, Jenni Heward Craig and David England.

At our meeting on 11 November 2013 the results of the self-judged Summer Competition were announced.

• 1st and the SW Summer Trophy: Winter Tales by Jenni Heward Craig

• 2nd: Learning Curves by Wally Smith

• 3rd: Ness of Brodgar by David England

Carol Breuer's Jagged Pieces and Tony Matthew’s Wonderstruck were runners up to the top three.

The task set for the Summer Competition was to create an anthology of five poems. The project was judged by those taking part and submissions were anonymous to ensure fairness. All those taking part wrote critiques on all the work which provided a valuable source of reference for all those taking part.

Terry had collated the results and critiques on the 11 entries. To score the entries he gave 5 points to the first place from each entrant, 4 to the second and so on. He said that every entrant was awarded points. He read a selection of the comments on each anthology before giving the results. The result was very close.

Wally Smith who took second place reads his anthology.