Results from Torbay Poetry Festival’s Open Poetry Competitions

TORBAY OPEN POETRY COMPETITION 

Ist Prize   On Driving my Mother Home …         Giles Goodland

2nd Prize What is Beautiful I do not Know    Rosie Jackson

3rd Prize  The Hares of Birkenau    Wendy Klein

Highly Commended:

Pub at the End of the Road          Jennie Osborne
Beautiful Woods       Wyn Wheldon
Spring Equinox        Maggie Butt
Observations on the Creation    Helen Ashley
Selkie Wife     Kathy Miles
Dark Windows    Kay Cotton

Commended

Katie Gillies from St Kilda      Hugh McMillan
Cloud Spotters   Stephanie Conybeare
Archbishops at the Lido  Sarah Watkinson
Cease Fire  Christine Griffin
Jan Palach  Rebecca Gethin
Finding ‘Four Quartets’   Louise Wilford
Portrait of my Father …   Ann Ryland
The Last Piece   David John Smith
Whales  Iora Dawes
Student Mobilization Order   Nancy Mattson
The Day they Decimalised the Words   Ben Ray

THE DANNY PYLE MEMORIAL POETRY COMPETITION

1st Prize  To My Dishwater    Louise Wilford

2nd Prize  Midsomer Madness  Alec Taylor

Highly Commended

Pretentious Poem  Gordon Campbell
Torbay Haiku      Michael Bartholomew-Biggs
Onesiefunsie     Liz Crosby
And the Prize Goes To …    Sue Beasley

These poets were also on Danielle’s Long List

Leung Rachel Ka Yin (Hong Kong)
Veronica Aaronson
Graham Burchell
Fokkina Mcdonald
Peter Phillips
John Godfrey
Patricia Leighton
Patricia Leighton
Angela Howarth
Joan Michelson
Keith Mcfarlane  (The Netherlands)
M.E. Muir
Jenna Plewes
Mary Mulholland
Graham Burchell
Graham Burchell
Philip Smith
Christine Griffin
Elaine Miller
Derek Sellers
Laura Potts