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The Academi Cardiff International Poetry Competition 2000
2000 Winners Five
4th Places each winning £200
2nd Place winning £700
First Prize - winning £3000 Since it was established fourteen year ago the Welsh Academy's Cardiff International Poetry Competition has become one of the biggest in Britain. This year's prizes have been increased to offer the author of the winning poem an outstanding 1st prize of £3000, a splendid reward for the creation of a new piece of verse. In addition there are awards of £700 for 2nd or £300 for 3rd along with a further five prizes of £200. All entries to the Competition were judged anonymously. This, of course, is one of the great reasons for entering poetry competitions in the first place. You may tell yourself that it is the money you are after (and £3000 in exchange for a £4 stake represents quite good odds) or you may be convinced that it is the kudos of actually coming out on top that drives you. The reality is more likely that for once in your writing career the playing field has been leveled. No one moves forward because of whom they are, whom they know or what their name sounds like. Your poems, for all you know, go into the same heap as those of Seamus Heaney, Andrew Motion, U A Fanthorpe, Carol Ann Duffy and Benjamin Zephaniah. Names are removed. The judges make their evaluations on the quality of the work alone. If your poem is any good then it is that consideration that will move it on. "The true bards will be sorted from the vagabonds", they will be indeed. The Academi 2000 Cardiff International Poetry Competition offers a very level playing field, a large cash prize, publication in one of the country's leading literary journals, appearance on the web, publicity, kudos and a feeling that you've actually managed to get somewhere real with a single poem. Don't waste time. The closing date for the 2000 Competition was 30th June, 2000. The prizes were announced at a ceremony held at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff on 17th October
JUDGES WENDY COPE
was born in 1945 in Erith, Kent. She read history at St. Hilda's College,
Oxford then went on to do a year's post-graduate teacher training. She
worked as a full-time primary teacher, eventually becoming head of a school
in the Old Kent Road. She is now a freelance writer and one of the few
poets to feature in the Sunday Times best-sellers list and to have her
work reproduced on the underground, on T-shirts, on mugs and posters.
She is one of the most popular poets writing today. ROGER McGOUGH
sprang to fame in the Sixties as one of the upbeat, pop, iconoclastic
Liverpool Poets and is now one of the best known and best selling poets
in Britain. Born in Liverpool in 1937, he was educated at St. Mary's College
and at the University of Hull. Previous Competition Winners include Ben Rice (London), Sheenagh Pugh (Cardiff), Antony Dunn (York), Diana Sabot (Maine, USA), Dr Charles Bennett (Warwick), Alison Spritzler-Rose (London), Philip Gross (Bristol), Glenda Began (Rhyl), Duncan Bush (Luxembourg), Margaret Ann Speak (York), David Annwn (Wakefield), Nigel Jenkins (Swansea), Ann Drysdale (Blaina), Cathal L Dallat (London), Pete Morgan (Shillington), Bill James (Sully), Gavin Bantock (Japan), Abi Hughes-Edwards (Narberth), Victoria Pugh (Reading), Jem Poster (Oxford), and Robert Hamberger (Leicester). The 1999 Competition winner was Elizabeth Kay (Surrey), second was Linda Chase (Manchester), and third Jan Jenkins (London).
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