2010 Competition

The National Poetry Competition 2010 will open for entries in April. Please keep checking back for details of the judges and how to enter.

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National Poetry Competition 2009

The 2009 NPC is now closed.

Thank you to all who entered the National Poetry Competition 2009. The competition is now closed for entries. All winners and commendations will be notified shortly after the 29 January 2010.

Winners will be officially announced on 30 March 2010 at a prize giving event at the Savile Club in London's Mayfair, on the Poetry Society website on the 31 March and in the Spring issue of Poetry Review.

The Reading Man by Tori Flower

 

Artwork

Our commissioned artwork for the National Poetry Competition 2009, The Reading Man, is made out of the winning poems of 2008 by Artist Tori Flower.

 

 

Judges

Daljit NagraDaljit Nagra Ruth PadelRuth Padel

Neil RollinsonNeil Rollinson

The winners of the National Poetry Competition 2009 will be published in  Poetry Review, on the Poetry Society website, in Aesthetica Magazine and also get the chance to read at Ledbury Poetry Festival. 

 

 

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