Torbay Poetry Competition (August)

Torbay Open Poetry Competition. Torbay Poetry Festival. Once again, we have some new events, and as usual inspired by comments from previous years. Saturday sees the return to Torbay of Kit Wright. Many in the Bay remember his previous visit and will look forward to his entertaining poems before the Supper. Sunday is a day of requested returns. The Festival Debate returns in the morning, Lunch time sees the return of The Festival Challenge, so sharpen your pens again.

In the afternoon, the excursion is an up-dated Where the Writers Wrote (6th Festival), a coach trip around Torbay with afternoon tea at the Michelin-starred Orestone Manor, arriving back at the Grosvenor Hotel in plenty of time for the evening reading. We enjoy our audiences participating in the Festival. Indeed ‘To have great poets there must be great audiences too’ – Walt Whitman. This year we have 16 events where the audience can join in. Like we’ve said before, not only do we encourage poets and audiences to mix and exchange views, but we also try to make sure that the audiences also mix. Time between events, with food and wine available, can ensure those vital poetic friendships are maintained. As always, we have tried to keep ticket prices to a minimum. So come and meet old, and make new, friends in what must be one of the most beautiful areas of the country. The weather is usually kind to us though we can’t guarantee it. But we can guarantee an exciting weekend filled with enjoyable poetry.

DUNCAN FORBES' poems have been published by Faber, Secker and Enitharmon, who brought out a Selected Poems, Lifelines, in 2009. It was drawn from five previous collections. www.enitharmon.co.uk Awards and prizes include a Gregory Award, TLS/Blackwells Prize, two Stephen Spender Times Translation Prizes and a Hawthornden Fellowship. A painter as well as a poet, he read English at Oxford and has taught for many years.

Judge : Duncan Forbes

Prizes : Winners to be announced at the Prize Winners' Party as part of Torbay Poetry Festival on Saturday 22 October, at the Grosvenor Hotel, Torquay, where short-listed poets will be invigted to read their poems.

First prize - £800.00
Second prize - £400.00
Third prize - £200.00
Plus runners up

Entry fees :

£4.00 per poem
3 poems for £10.00
6 poems for £20.00

Entry Form : http://www.torbaypoetryfestival.co.uk/cw3/assets/content_images/entryform.pdf

Send entries to: The Administrator, c/o 6 The Mount, Fruzeham, Brixham, Devon TQ5 8QY

Closing date : 31 August 2011

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