Ver Poets Open Competition 2022
The results of the 2022 competition are given below:- First Prize: Duracell by Isabella Mead
- Second Prize: After the Disappearances by Penny Blackburn
- Third Prize: Your Psychosis by Angela Ward
- The Typesetter’s Funeral by Mark Joseph
- Haibun for a Son, Cooking by Ken Evans
- The frame is offensively ornate and there’s nowhere to cry in the Tate by Kat Dixon
- The clock test and other regrets by Janet Hatherley
- Birthday by Genevieve Carver
- Mutual by Ian Heffernan
- The Limits of Music as Time Travel by Polly Atkin
- Scan by Greg Smith
- Illuminated HSBC signs, Canary Wharf by Carl Tomlinson
- A Day At The Crypto Races by Julian Bishop
- Folding Sheets by Elizabeth Diamond
- So Tiny and Forlorn by S. Hill
- A Roman Snail by Keith Chandler
- Portrait of a Warehouse during a Heatwave by Julia Stothard
- Religion by Sue Johns
- Kingfisher by Ben Verinder
- Landscape Looks at Hands by Belinda Singleton
- On Blackheath Station by Catherine Ormell
- Reinventing the Pig by Catherine Ormell
- The Church Bell in My Bed by Mark Joseph
- I Got Them Down-Home Metaphysical Blues Again, Mama by Oz Hardwick
- She’d glitter the stars by Cynthia Kitchen
- The Orchid Hunters by Christopher Horton
- Alive by Rodney Wood
- emotional hoarding by Elana Waite
- Four audible sighs by Alison Campbell
- The Table of the Sun by John Hussey
- OXYGEN by Philip Burton
- ghost gum, kings canyon by Mary Mulholland
- Gift by Will Eaves
- Perspective Christopher Horton
- The Elephant in the Room Was The Least Of Our Worries by Miles Salter
- Vanishing Point by Julia Stothard