Ver Poets Open Competition 2020 Results
First Prize: Woodland by Vanessa Lampert
Second Prize: Pangolin by Julian Bishop
Third Prize: What the dawn taught me by Ingrid Leonard
Highly Commended:
- After the Crash by Catherine Edmunds
- Dig deeper by Vanessa Lampert
- A Wedding by Kathryn Bevis
Commended:
- Hortus Conclusus by Michael Woods
- Endgame by Julie Lumsden
- Lament by Sylvia Banham
Selected:
- Love Song …by Chrissie Bury
- Making a Wren…. by Michael Greavy
- It is Night by Dilys Wood
- Microclimate#2 by Ceri Morgan
- An Aberdyfi grave by John Gallas
- The Clearing by Kathryn Bevis
- Shopping List by Simon Cockle
- Icarus … by Miriam Obrey
- Walking with Ava Grace by Miriam Obrey
- easter island by Lucy Crispin
- My Twin Sister by Marjory Woodfield
- The Past in your Pocket by Polly Walshe
- The Search by John Lancaster
- Nana’s brooches by Cheryl Pearson
- The Promised Land by Michael Henry
- Warning by Keith Chandler
- The Pink House… by David Jones
- Kathputli Puppets by Sam Burns
- Querent by Gaynor Clements
- Sitting beside by Rebecca Hubbard
- Where You Hit Women by Robin Lindsay Wilson
- How it Ends by Catherine Edmunds
- The House by Miles Salter
- Some Say by Christina Thatcher
- Tulips by Claire Louise Hunt
- Near Skyreholme by Stephen Holland
- The Apple Orchard by Helen Overell
Our competition anthology, The Ver Prize 2020, includes all of the above poems and Jacqueline Saphra’s report. All those included will receive a copy. Further copies can be ordered by sending a cheque for £4 (plus £1 p&p), made payable to Ver Poets, to 181 Sandridge Road, St Albans, Herts, AL1 4AH.