Adjudicator: Anne Stewart

First Prize:  Close the Door Softly – Finola Holiday
Joint Second Prize:  Dreaming of dolphins – Christopher Delaney
Joint Second Prize:  The days – Anna Avebury

The winners and all the below poems were included in the 2015 Ver Poets anthology. Copies can be ordered by sending a cheque for £3 per copy, made payable to Ver Poets, to 181 Sandridge Road, St Albans, Herts, AL1 4AH. Postage free.

 Highly Commended:

• Up The Garden Path – A.C.Clarke
• Inmate–Muriel Towell
• Rough Night at Sea- Valerie Morton
• Spring Comes – Kaye Lee

Selected:

• Peace bell–Rosemary Muncie
• I’d Say–June English
• Poem for John–Sylvia Banham
• Remembrance – Selwyn Veater
• After Hearing Vivaldi… – Selwyn Veater
• Sunshaft – A.C.Clarke
• Meeting – A.C.Clarke
• Nights – Muriel Towell
• Damage limitation – Diana Pritchard
• There are words still waiting–Kevin Maynard
• Vase–Isobel Thrilling
• Missing – Kaye Lee
• October Rose–Bob Niblett
• Spring–Pat Watson
• “I have a little neck”–Laura Garratt
• Blue Lightening – Laura Garratt
• Instant–Susan Skinner
• Borrowing books… – Terry Jones
• Juvenilia – Terry Jones
• Christmas Decoration – Daphne Schiller
• Voyage – David Jones
• Under Two–Helen Lovelock-Burke
• The Airing Cupboard–Roy Batt
• Poets have been mysteriously… – Viv Mcmanus
• The Only Thing–Simon Bowden
• September apples–Beliz McKenzie
• Small comforts – Beliz McKenzie
• The Pianist–Katherine Gallagher
• Rock and Roll–Anna Avebury

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