Ledbury Poetry competition 2011

The Ledbury Poetry Competition is now over.  The winners' names are: C . J Allen for the Adult's section, Andrew Wynn Owen for the 12 - 17 year old section and Aimee Huges for the 11 years and under. Read their poems by clicking on the link below and come and hear them read on Saturday 9 July at 12.45pm in the Burgage Hall

The festival would like to thank Anthony Thwaite and Mandy Ross for kindly agreeing to judge this year's competition. See below for more details about our judges.

 

We are delighted that Ty Newydd, the National Writers’ Centre for Wales has again agreed to sponsor our first prize. Not only is it one of the loveliest houses around the Snowdonia National Park but it offers excellent accommodation and facilities combined with a milieu in which individual’s work can happily flourish. Attendees have contact and supervision with skilled and approachable tutors who are themselves eminent poets; in the past this has included: George Szirtes, Carol Ann Duffy, Penelope Shuttle, Daljit Nagra and Jo Shapcott. These writers give guidance, feedback and affirmation to those attending the courses.

“Winning at Ledbury was wonderful.” Jacob Polley

Judges

Anthony Thwaite (Adult)

Anthony Thwaite is well known to Ledbury audiences for his poetry but is also an acclaimed writer, broadcaster, critic, reviewer and academic. In 1986 he was Chairman of the Judges for the Booker Prize for Fiction. Together with Andrew Motion, Anthony is literary executor of the estate of Philip Larkin and he has edited Larkin's Collected Poems (1988), Selected Letters (1992) and Further Requirements: Interviews, Broadcasts, Statements and Book reviews, 1952-85 (2001). One of his many poetry collections includes A Different Country: New Poems in 2000.

Mandy Ross (Children and Young People)

Mandy Ross is an author and editor who has written over 60 children's books, including poetry, stories and non-fiction. Twice short-listed for Birmingham Poet Laureate, she has done lots of creative work getting children writing in and out of school, online... and off the page. She is a member of Secret City Arts www.secretcityarts.com

Mandy’s books include Animal Exercises (Animal Lullabies S.), Rivers (Geography Fact Files), Hello Primrose! (Little Petals), and Hello Poppy! (Little Petals).

 

 

 

Read the poems by the 2011 winners here>

 

 

Judges

Anthony Thwaite (Adult) Image Caroline Forbes

Mandy Ross (Children and Young People)

Prizes

Ty Newydd
The National Writers' Centre for Wales.

Read 2011's competition winners here.