Thank you to everyone who took part in the poetry competition. There were 17 entries and 41 people voted, which was a great response.
The poems on the website are now captioned with the authors’ names – click here to read them again. Here is the list of who wrote which poem:
1 – Joanna Webber
2 – Mary Noble
3 – Peter Clapham
4 – Sir Roger Carrick
5 – Marion Jay
6 – Marion Jay
7 – Amanda Elliott
8 – Sir Roger Carrick
9 – Kate McKenzie
10 – Ro Hoyte
11 – Nina Dodd
12 – Tanya Downes
13 – Lesley Roake
14 – Joe Roake
15 – Margaret O’Hara
16 – Mary Noble
17 – Margaret Lovett
First choice votes scored 2 points; second choice, 1 point.
Every single poem earned at least one vote! Well done!
Results:
First Prize: poem 6 scored 24 points and poem 5 scored 22. They were both from Marion Jay, so she was awarded joint First Prize
Second Prize went to poem 10 by Ro Hoyte, which scored 16 points
Third Prize went to poem 3 by Peter Clapham, which scored 15 points
Fourth: poem 9 by Kate McKenzie
Fifth: poem 15 by Margaret O’Hara
Joint sixth: poems 7 and 12 by Amanda Elliott and Tanya Downes
Thank you to everyone – to Amanda Elliott for helping to set up the display, to Marion for her help on the website and to Sarah and Mark for being so helpful.
Mary Noble
Wootton Courtenay 