Results, Swale Life Poetry Competition, October 2012

We are pleased to announce the results of the Swale Life Poetry Competition, October 2012 judged by Mandy Pannett.

This competition closed on the 31st of October and raised £110.37 for Diversity House, publishers of Swale Life magazine.

Here are the results.

 

Prize Winners:

 

1^st – Whose Life? Your Life - Alyn Fenn

 

2^nd – complete - Sara Ridgley

 

3^rd – Spindle Tree – Camilla Lambert

 

Highly Commended:

1. Saint Egg’s Holy Day Revival. – John Gallas  

2.  Man in Red Boots. – sara ridgley

 

Commended poems:

 

Hoe - Caroline Maldonado

Orchards – Amy Ekins

Seafoam -  Roanne O'Neil

Mother-In-Law – Kemi Apeke

Caged Bears - Katelin Farnsworth

Leap – A C Clarke

caring for small things - Catherine Edmunds

Crossing the Island at Midnight – ANN SEGRAVE

Terra, Secreta – ann segrave

The Ash-tree breaks its buds –ann segrave

Delphiniums – Neil Leadbeater

 

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THANK YOU FOR ENTERING THE SWALE LIFE POETRY COMPETITION, OCTOBER 2012

We write to say a very big thank you to poets from far and near who entered their poems in the Swale Life International Poetry Competition closed at midnight, 31st October.

We have now collated all the entries and are pleased to say that with 171 entries, we exceeded our target for this competition by 21 poems, and the competition has raised £110.37 for Diversity House. This brings the total amount we have raised for charity through our competitions to £1,949.42.

The poems will be sent off to the judge over the weekend and the results will be announced together with the publication of the winning poems on 30th November at www.swalelife.com

The results will also be published in our news blog.

Thank you very much for your support.

Nnorom Azuonye
Administrator, Excel for Charity Writing Competitions

African Prisons Project

Excel for Charity has agreed to run poetry and short story competitions for the African Prisons Project, a UK registered charity working to bring dignity and hope to men, women and children in prisons in Africa through healthcare, education, access to justice and community reintegration. It is our vision that time spent in prison is a period of positive transformation.

We know that there are many innocent people languishing in prisons across Africa with little or no access to legal representation.

Excel for Charity has so far raised and given £1,839.05 to charities including Diversity House, Lupus UK, Stepping Stones Nigeria, The Psychiatry Research Trust, The TRYangle Project and Build Africa.

More information will be announced in http://excelforcharity.blogspot.co.uk

Titania’s Wood

MANDY PANNETT

 

Her snakes are enamel in moonlight, hot

and heavy as chains. They stir uneasily; hiss.

In her rosebud bower she twines love-knots

with ribbons as gifts for the child. Unnoticed

her husband faces the forest, plots how best

he can hurt his wife, take over and gain

control of the boy. They are both obsessed.

This is a poisonous wood – wolfsbane,

hemlock, a low-hanging moon in a pool

of frogs, pale-green and belly-up; dead.

The child sleeps on: as yet no unscrupulous

moonbeams disorder the curls on his head.

In sweet-briar dreams his world is kind –

later he’ll learn not only worms are blind.

 

 

Highly Commended poem, Build Africa Poetry Competition 2012