Competition results

THE BEDFORD OPEN POETRY COMPETITION

2011-2012

Judged by Paul Groves

RESULTS

FIRST PRIZE:                 DAVID R CRAVENS

Violence in Old Sainte Geneviève

SECOND PRIZE:            ALWYN MARRIAGE

The clue lies in the lady’s toe

THIRD PRIZE:                   LESLEY BURT

A Position

COMMENDED :

CLIVE EASTWOOD:    In the Low Countries

MATTHEW BARTON:            Dealing with Bees

HELEN OVERELL:      Artefact

HELEN OVERELL:     Flat-leaf parsley in a blue jug

CHARLES EVANS: The Glass Bottom

ANDY POLLARD:      Love you to pieces

GREG FREEMAN:      The Wild West

The winning and commended poems will be published in the

February edition of The Interpreter’s House.