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Faringdon Online Poetry Competition

Winners
Congratulations to the winners
and everyone who took part

Thanks especially to our judge,
Helen Kidd,
lecturer in creative writing
at Ruskin College, Oxford
who selected the prize winners and commended poems. 		Best Poem
Sue Chadd for her poem  Needle

Best Comic Poem
John Wright for his poem  The Landlord is my Shepherd

Best Poem by a Local Author
David Burridge for his poem   Pausing for Breath in the Sierra Nevada

Best Junior Poem
Sam Ryde aged 7 for his poem   Littlehampton
read the short listed poems
  General Comic Junior Local
Runners Up Barn Owl - David Burns The Day Kitty Knitted an Orgasm
Sarah Macleod 		The Beauty of the Sea - Ellie Pritchard Translations - Scharlie Meeuws
  St Ninian's Isle - Hilary O'Shea
      
Highly Commended
  • Moonshadows - Sue Chadd
  • Southside Girl - David Woodruff
  • Your Skin - Marion Woolley
  • A Cautionary Tale for Poets - Don Nixon
  • Rent-a-Nut - Kevin Loughnane
  • Apathy - Judith Barrow
  • The 'Ospital - Clive Wyatt
  • If Only - Blane Asfaw
  • Here's to You - Catherine Schroeter
  • White Horse - Hilary O'Shea
  • Alhambra - David Burridge
  • An Hour in Canterbury - Beau Hopkins
  • Tripping up Montsegur - David Burridge

Commended
  • Storm on Stronsay - Nick Morgan
  • Morning of the Announcement - David Woodruff
  • Ted Hughes - Henry Oliver
  • On Parting - Biljana Scott
  • Meeting You - Hilary O'Shea
  • Short October Light - Diane Smith
  • Artefacts - Nick Morgan
  • The Cruellest Month - K.V.Skene
  • My Mistake - Trevor Belshaw
  • Small Town - Jackie Juno
  • Life In Music - Jackie Juno
  • I Fell in Love With an Estate Agent - Steven Beattie
  • Seventy - Anthony Scott
  • Talking About Wine - Mary Whitsell
  • Advice to Bears - Laura Garratt
  • The Mumps - Stephanie Ellis
  • Food Haiku Trilogy - Jackie Juno
  • Lollipop Lady - Clive Wyatt
  • The Old Wooden Wagon - Ellie Pritchard
  • The Final Countdown - Rebecca Bull
  • Creation and Destruction - Patrick Pollard
  • The One That Got Away - Jess Howell
  • Life of a Cat - Emma yeo
  • My Rabbit - Luke Cordas
  • Needs Must When The Devil Drives - David Burridge
  • Wordsworth's First Draft - Peter King
  • Dear William Carlos Williams - Steven Messenger
  • The Letter - Joanne Collins
  • The Music Lesson - David Burridge
  • Philosphical Reflections - In Ancient Spoof Format - Harry Mitchell
  • Dear Crag Raine's Martian; Their Heads Have Two Small Holes - Steven Messenger
  • What a Waste Of Badedas and Bathwater - Jaqueline Wharton

read the short listed poems

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