COOPERATIVE POETRY COMPETITION
"COMPETITION is good and bad. Competition inspires and frustrates. Competitions creates winners and losers. Every one who writes poem is a poet. Some poets like competition and puts their trophies into their CV. Some poets don’t like competition. This competition would like to inspire those poets too."
Idea and organisation by Agnes Hay with assistance from others.
Our competition will give PRIZES in three categories:
Category 1. Poets' prize: Every contributor wins. All poems will be published on the website
Category 2. Favourites' prize: Contributors vote for their favourite poem (by its ID number) from the whole collection by email. The prize is the votes, the appreciation of the fellow poets.
Category 3. Fluke prize: A winner poem will be chosen by draw from a hat. It will be praised by the other participants and a video will be made of it.
- ENTRY price £5 for each poem.
Poems should be no longer than 27 lines
- All poems from one author should be in one email
- Payment should be made to Torriano.org through the donate page on the website (£5/poem)
- DEADLINE 21 June 2025
+ Patron Prize for the one who paid the most.
It is fundraising after all for keeping up Torriano Meeting House. Every participant can feel free to pay more then the fee/poem price.
Prize reading celebration September 2025
PROCEDURE
After the deadline the winners of Category1/ i.e. all poems will be on the web site with numbers instead of the authors' name.
Every participant can vote for their favorite poem by e-mail until 1 September to win Category2 prize
Every participant/winner is invited for the prize giving celebration.
part 1 Category 2 Prize celebration
Video made from quotes from the Category 2 winners (the poems get most votes from fellow participants.)
The result of the votes will be announced.
part 2 Category 3 Prize celebration
We put the names of the participants present in a hat and draw the winner. The chosen poet chooses one of his/her poem (or it will be chosen by lot, too?)
The winner poem will be read. The text will be projected on the screen. The audience will be asked to eulogize it.
(A video of the quotes of P3 winner poem and its eulogy will be made later and published.)
part 3
A joyous celebration of all poets and poetry writers with a party, drink and food and merriment.
We don't give a shit about your language as long as it is English, but we don't tolerate intolerance, abuse.
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