Spring 2009 Poetry Competition Winners

Thank you all so much - the Chuckle Bonus has been a huge success and so many of you have brightened our day with your ingenuity. Not all of the poems below are intended to make you laugh, but it won't take you long to work out which ones are funny, I promise. Enjoy...

 

The JBWB Spring 2009 Poetry Competition

The Placement by Christine Bryant - £100 First Prize

More Than a One-Night Stand by Lynn Higham - £50 Second Prize

Particles by Noel Williams - £20 Third Prize + £20 Chuckle Bonus

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SHORT STORY COMPETITION

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Spring 2009 shortlisted runners-up:

Second Opinion by Christine Bryant

Bedtime Barbie by Louise Beech

Passion Fruit by Sue Pickard

Pig by Robert Gibbs

Exclamatory! by Carol Rogers

Looking for my Get-Up-and-Go by Diana E Backhouse

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Highly Commended

Roger Knowles (for Irene)

Harriet Steel

Susan M Fletcher (for The Other If)

Damian Begley (for Roe Salmon)

Vivien C Birtwell

Faith Walsh

Connie Anderson

Carl Smith

Debra Dando

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Recent Winners

Watching the Kite by Kate Keating (1st Prize)

Young Love by Peter Ebard (2nd Prize)

Stupid Stupid by Caroline M Davies (3rd Prize)

Passing Notes by Carol Rogers (1st Prize)

Old Age by Garry Kilworth (2nd Prize)

Learning Curve by Jean Jones (3rd Prize)

The Lime Grove by Jean Jones (1st Prize)

Summer Holidays by Carol Rogers (2nd Prize)

The Old Pillbox by Charlotte Gann (3rd Prize)

A Friend Dying by Clare Girvan (1st Prize)

Forgotten by June Owen (2nd Prize)

Sarah’s Poetic Justice by Jean Jones (3rd Prize)

Living with Shadows by Caroline Davies (1st Prize)

The Bookends by Jean Jones (2nd Prize)

The Unfinished Dress by Su Laws Baccino (3rd Prize)

The Owners by Garry Kilworth (1st Prize)

Budgeting: February 1963 by Carol Wolrich (2nd Prize)

Keystone by Jean Jones (3rd Prize)

Glowing by Seán Dagan Wood (1st Prize)

London, by Phone by Carol Wolrich (2nd Prize)

Medicine Bears by Simone Mansell Broome (3rd Prize)

When the Talking Stopped by Jean Jones (1st Prize)

Dark Slug by Jenny Hope (2nd Prize)

The Battleground by Carol Wolrich (3rd Prize)

The Wood and the Trees by Nicola Garden (1st Prize)

Splintered Ice by Jean Jones (2nd Prize)

For Hugo Williams… by Maureen Cate (3rd Prize)

Beckett’s Offspring by Faye Robertson (1st Prize)

Doing Without Dyno-Rod by Simone Mansell Broome (2nd Prize)

My Old School Friend by Linda Preston (3rd Prize)

Cave-Haven Woman by Carol Wolrich (1st Prize)

With You by Carol Wolrich (2nd Prize)

Short Break by Patricia Diane Wilson (3rd Prize)

Persistence by Gillian M Hesketh (1st Prize)

February, Westridge Woods by Simon McNulty (2nd Prize)

Longsighted by Gwil Williams (1st Prize)

South Specific Pirate Talk by Amanda Govan (3rd Prize)

Ten, Not Three by Carol Wolrich (2nd Prize)

Darkness Magnifies by Diane Wilson (3rd Prize)

57 by John Lawrence (1st Prize)

Always I Hear Your Voice by Mary Williams (2nd Prize)

Rocky Mountain Veteran by Carol Wolrich (3rd Prize)

City Stickers by Carol Wolrich (1st Prize)

Words on growing older by Shaaban (2nd Prize)

A Field in Edithmead by Rose James (1st Prize)

Pebbles by Jacqueline Davitt (2nd Prize)

At the Border by Gwil Williams (1st Prize)

Horizons by Sybil Levin (2nd Prize)

The Gentle Lion in my Garden by Carol Wolrich (1st Prize)

Promises, promises by Sarah Carnegie (2nd Prize)

The Owl by Margaret Pagdin (1st Prize)

Finca by Wendy Freebourne (2nd Prize)

Shopping by Gill Bacconier (1st Prize)

Although You Do Not Know Me by Gwil Williams (2nd Prize)

Eating Tabitha by Peter Wyton (1st Prize)

Nine Herons by Rob Mooney (2nd Prize)

Having read his anguished words by Gwil Williams (1st Prize)

The Knowledge by Lorraine Noble (2nd Prize)

The poets of the public bar by Gwil Williams (1st Prize)

Damaged Goods by Carol Wolrich (2nd Prize)

Neat Garden by Anita Traynor (1st Prize)

The Cell Phone by Maureen Cate (2nd Prize)

A Class Act by Carol Wolrich (1st Prize)

Carpet Fall by Carol Wolrich (2nd Prize)

Sycamore by Michael Conaghan (1st Prize)

Disconnection by John Lawrence (2nd Prize)

Wishful Thinking by Gill Baconnier (1st Prize)

Choc Ice Boy by Carol Wolrich (2nd Prize)

Tantrum by Christina Bustamante (1st Prize)

And One Binds Them All by Barbara King (2nd Prize)

Dunton Green by Michael Conaghan (1st Prize)

Empirical Ballad by Gill Baconnier (2nd Prize)

The night is never silent by Mike Toohey (1st Prize)

Under the Dead Moon by David Whitehead (2nd Prize)

Vigilante Love by Norman King Lloyd (1st Prize)

Through my Window by Mick Stringer (2nd Prize)

Winter Moonrise by Jo Leak (1st Prize)

Orders by Nigel Spriggs (2nd Prize)

Prospero's Farewell by Mick Stringer

A Good Home by Elizabeth Gowing

Primary Children’s Hospital by Sundy Watanabe

The Cruel Room by Mick Stringer

Time by Robert Sharp

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