Turner Maxwell Books proudly presents the winners of the poetry competition.Winners are awarded a publishing contract and free marketing for 12 months.
The best poems of the year by Turner Maxwell BooksHands of Hours by Alex Coleman
Poem 3 by Angela Bleeker
The Sparrow by Alan Watkiss
Carlita by Angela Lam Turpin
The Day The Rains Came by Avril Savda
A Painting in Words…by Beth Winchcombe
Geoffrey and the Dolphin by Brian.Morton
Like a tree by Caireen Kelley
Old Loves and Dark Birds by Chrissa Sandlin
A Day of Rest by Clare Halfon
Emigration and Sudden Death. (some small predicaments in each)
by Clodagh Beresford-Dunne
A Thousand And One Singers created by ilia
Heaven’s Deliverance by Deborah Simpson
Paper Doll by Emma Raynsford
Reflection in Mud by Gabriel LandowskiThe Dog Team by Grace Brooks
To Please by Heather Hind
Fighting Chance by Jack Horne
Resting place by James Bessant
She’s fly by Jordan Chaney
Beach crashers by Judith Ann Hillard
Holocaust Rag by Kenneth Weene
Of questioning belief……….by Kevan Taplin
Feeling Better by Kevin Graham
Stumbling Through The Years by Kevin Loughnane
Seascape by Kevin Meehan
Violet chartreuse by Lara Biuts
Sylphide by George Miler
A Walk by Leela Panikar
Phoenix Park Dublin Winter Morning by Mary B. Flintoff
Special Delivery to Myself by Lisa Allen.
Alpha-bites by Marcus Mcknight
All Soul’s Day by Maria Ilieva
Pledge by Peter Crombie
Someone To Miss by Peter Robinson
Ode to a slacker by Quentin R. Bufogle
Ode to the Sea Goddess by Andrew C. Rhodes
A seasonal Quartet by Richard Ormrod
Where Our Heroes Ashes Lay by Rita HestandPro Patria Mori by Roger Elkin
Time To Grieve by Sara-Leigh Browne
That Girl by Scarlett de Courcier
On Bubbles (Before and during a recession) by Seán Carabini
New York by Sean McCabe
A million monkeys by Simon Leyland
He said, she said by Stephanie Lunn
Poem by Stephanie Madison
Calling.by Susan Jolley
BICYCLE POEM IN 6/5 TIME SIGNATURE by J. de SalvoInside by Thomas Dowling
The Road to Bath by Tony Stowell,
To Be Free by Traci Aina
These are my confessions by Wendy Brown-Baez
Too Busy to Relax by Aaron Hoopes
The best poems of the year by Turner Maxwell Books
Published by Turner Maxwell Books, PO. Box 1287, HP11 9DS
First published 2010
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A dedicated cross-functional team with a broad range of poetic experience judged the poems. Individual entrants were rated against the following criteria: emotion, sensuality, assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhythm, musicality, ambiguity, symbolism, irony, diction, metaphor, simile, metonymy, and resonance.
What the judges said:
"With over one million website hits, we were inundated with entrants."
"Choosing the winners was extremely difficult, but all rated high on originality, structure and style."
"The literature is moving, evocative and
spoken from the heart showing great consideration and originality."
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