the Poetry kit

ISSN 1468-3075
Managing Editor: Jim Bennett

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TED SLADE AWARD

WAIATA DAWN DAVIES

(1925 - 2019)

Dial-a-Poem

Dial-a-Poem celebrates 50 years since John Giorno’s public art project launched in New York City. Giorno’s Dial-a-Poem connected callers to answering machines playing recordings by poets such as Allen Ginsberg, John Cage and Patti Smith. 2020 will see the service re-wired across several platforms. Winning poems will be published and recorded for the Dial-A-Poem app, a renovated K8 phone kiosk in the City of Nottingham and project website. The app will launch at The Science Museum in 2020.

The competition invites students enrolled at a UK institute of higher or further education to enter a poem on the theme of calling. This brief may be interpreted freely – poems can be directly or indirectly ‘telephonic’.

Prizes are awarded in National Book Tokens. First prize is £500, second prize is £300 and third prize is £200. An additional prize of £100 National Book Token will be awarded to a student currently enrolled at Nottingham Trent University.

https://crossedlines.co.uk/dial-a-poem-competition/

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Our students have won or been commended in many poetry competitions including the UK National Poetry Competition,

have published collections of poetry, been published in anthologies and magazines, in print and online. They have appeared on Radio and TV

Poetry Kit runs a full range of interesting and challenging courses. In addition to those listed above there are other

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offer a good reliable service. There is no charge made or expected for listing at Poetry Kit.

Send 4-book poet Dan Masterson a one-page poem of your own making, and he'll comment on it free of charge. Thereafter you may continue working with him on a fee basis if you wish

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15th January 2020	1st £100 entry £3	CULPEPPER’S REMEDY POETRY COMPETITION 2020 For poems of any length on any theme. Our competition will be judged by poet and editor, LUCY TURNBULL First prize is £100 Second £50 and all poems will be considered for our 2020 anthology. Entry fees 1 poem £3 3 poems £6 5 poems £8 All entries must be received by midnight on 15^th January 2020. For further details and to enter online see https://culpeppersremedy.wordpress.com/competition-2020/
18th January 2020	1st £150 entry £3	Edward Thomas Fellowship Poetry Competition 2020 Poems are invited on any subject but of no more than forty lines. Closing date January18th 2020. The judge will be the prize-winning poet Jane Draycott. Prizes:1^st prize £150, two further £50 prizes. Fees; £3 per poem with a maximum of three. Postal entries welcome, cheques payable to Edward Thomas Fellowship, sent with your details and the anonymised poem(s) to Margaret Keeping,66 Fairacres Road, Oxford, OX4 1TG. OR: Email: Word document to Barbara Kinnes, bjkinnes@gmail.com + fee to the Fellowship’s account, 40-08-21, 11250205 with your initial and surname as Reference, Competition as description.
21st January 2020	1st £600 entry £4	Poets & Players Poetry Competition Closing Date 21st January 2020 We are pleased to announce the 8th poetry competition run by Poets & Players, one of Manchester’s leading organisers of poetry and music events. Our judge for 2020 is Sinéad Morrissey 1st Prize: £600 2nd Prize: £200 3rd Prize: £100 Entry £4 or 3 for £10 https://poetsandplayers.co/2019/11/16/competition-2020/ Winners will be informed by Tuesday 17 March 2020 and will be invited to read alongside Sinéad Morrissey at the prize giving ceremony on the afternoon of Saturday 4 April 2020 at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
31st January 2020	1st £1000 Entry £5	The 2019 Plough International Poetry Prize The 2019 Plough International Poetry Prize is now open and the judge this year is Greta Stoddart, author of the award-winning poetry books At Home in the Dark and Salvation Jane. Entries are invited for poems of up to 40 lines for the chance to win: 1st prize £1000 2nd prize £500 n 3rd prize £250 For further details see https://www.theploughprize.co.uk/
31st January 2020	1st £200 entry £3	The Prole Laureate Poetry Competition for 2020 is now open for entries. 1 winner receives £200 and publication in Prole, issue 30. 2 x runners up receive £50 each and publication in Prole 30. All entries will be anonymised and sent to judge, Jonathan Edwards. Winner and runners up will be announced in issue 30 of Prole and on our website. The competition is, as ever, open regarding length, style and content. They are looking for poetry that epitomises the editorial values of Prole: to make writing engaging, accessible, challenging and entertaining. Quality is all. All entries must be the original work of the writer and be unpublished. For further details http://www.prolebooks.co.uk/poetry%20competition.html
31st January 2020	1st £1000 entry £5	Kent and Sussex Poetry Society Open Poetry Competition 2020 The Judge is poet Carrie Etter, author of Imagined Sons, Divining for Starters, and The Tethers. She will read all the submissions. First prize: £1,000 Second prize: £300 Third prize: £100 Plus 4 x £50 The prize-winning poems will be published in the Society’s Poetry Folio in September 2020, and on the Society's website. For further information see https://kentandsussexpoetry.com/the-kent-sussex-poetry-society-open-competition/
31st January 2020	1st £1000 entry £5	The 2019 Plough International Poetry Prize is now open and the judge this year is Greta Stoddart, author of the award-winning poetry books At Home in the Dark and Salvation Jane. Entries are invited for poems of up to 40 lines for the chance to win: 1st prize £1000 2nd prize £500 3rd prize £250 See https://www.theploughprize.co.uk/

The 2019 Plough International Poetry Prize

Kent and Sussex Poetry Society Open Poetry Competition 2020

Dial-a-Poem