Addition to the printed leaflet

poetry competition

the winners

Mintaka Angell	Sharjah English School, Dubai
Ursula Downes	Nottingham High School for Girls
Emily Ford	Bullers Wood School, Chislehurst
Sophie Hall-Luke	Woodlands Community School, Derby
Beth Johnson	Farlingaye High School, Woodbridge
Taline Kazandjian	St George’s College, Addlestone
Jack David Lowe-Zinola	Blatchington Mill School, Hove
Sarah Lucas	Burgess Hill School
Nataliya Manskova	Ashby School, Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Kathleen Marsh	Tonbridge Grammar School for Girls
Daniel Miles	Mellow Lane School, Hayes
Phoebe Power	Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Penrith
Krisztina Rakoczy	Urmston Grammar School
Alice Robinson	Hind Leys Specialist Arts College, Loughborough
Jade Alexandera Rowley	City of Norwich School
Kate Strange	Watford Grammar School for Girls

Congratulations to the winners of our Poetry Live poetry competition.  I'm sorry that we are few days late announcing this winning list but several entrants couldn't actually take up their places so we've had to go back into the short list and make a few additional selections.

The standard of entries has been very high, according to the judges Gillian Clarke and Imtiaz Dharker, so they had a tough job choosing the sixteen.

If you are not not one of the sixteen, then all I can do is offer my commiserations.  What I do know is that every poet starts off like this, sending poems off to competitions and to poetry magazines.  You've taken this first step by entering this competition and I want to encourage you to carry on doing this.  Keep writing poems, keep reading poems (no one can become a good poetry writer without being an avid reader of poetry) and keep sending them everywhere you can.

Very best wishes.

Simon Powell