Peterloo Poets

23^rd Annual Open Poetry Competition 2007

Judges: John Mole ~ Peter Sansom ~ Carole Satyamurti ~ Harry Chambers

OPEN SECTION

1^st Prize £1,500: (Berks) Susan Utting “Under The Blue Ball”

2^nd Prize £1,000: (Devon) Elisabeth Rowe “Going to School”

3^rd Prize £500: (Beds) Victoria Cichy “Gun Hill Café”

4^th Prize £100: (Kent) John Whitworth “On The Deaths of Philosophers”

10 X £50 PRIZES:

(Yorkshire) Catherine Benson “Le Hardi”

(Norfolk) Keith Chandler “Prints”

(Herts) John Godfrey “Every Cloud”

(Jersey) Alan Jones “Mary Seacole: Carte de Visite”

(Yorkshire) Char March “Another Box of Nipples Arrived Today”

(London) Helena Paul “Urban Moon”

(London) John Richmond “Anniversary”

(Kent) Sue Rose “Collector”

(Devon) Frances Thompson “Toad-Grace”

(Essex) Mick Wood “Real Money”

Highly Commended:

(Yorkshire) Jay Appleton “Nu-Speak”

(U.S.A) Len Krisak “Some Sounds”

(South Wales) Tim Raikes “Stone Artist”

(London) Doreen Hinchliffe “Pat and Roland”

15-19 AGE GROUP SECTION – 5 x £100 PRIZES

(Devon) Michelle Beech “The Giant Tortoise and Me”

(Beds) Miranda Cichy “Bear”

            (Shropshire) Alice Malin “The Hoxton Market Mission and Ragged

School”

(Derbyshire) Emily Middleton “Her Caviar”

(Bristol) Ruby Nicholson-Pallett “Snow”

Highly Commended:

(Beds) Miranda Cichy “Mittens”

(Shropshire) Alice Malin “Dock Worker, 1924”

(Sussex) Colette Sensier “Mrs Rochester”

(Hampshire) Ashton Spacey “Caution – A Tribute to Jenny Jospeh”