POETRY LAUNCH
An open field
Are you ready to send in your best poems? asks Alison Chisholm, as she launches WM’s Open Poetry Competition 2024
Prizes: £100 and £50 Entry fee: £7.50/£6 subscribers Closing date: 15 March See p76 for details
Nearly two hundred years ago Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote that poetry was made up of the best words in the best order. Times and styles may have changed, but that requirement has not. The winner of the Open Poetry Competition may be on any subject and in any form, but it will most certainly be made up of the best words in the best order.
There is no way of guessing the theme of the poem that will be the winner. It might be heavyweight and philosophical, dealing with the worst of the current news or the depths of despair. Equally it could be light – even flippant – and designed to make the reader laugh aloud.
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