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.