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COLLECTIONS - POETRY COMPETITION - JUNE 2025

June's writing competition was Poetry, but with a difference!

(Thanks to our Sumi for this excellent challenge)


Poets were given the following four broad topics: 

  • Nature 
  • Family
  • Holidays
  • Food


Poets then had to choose one of the topics above for an entry (maximum of two entries per poet).

The challenge was to write three poems as one "collection" but written in three styles: Haiku, Cinquain, and Limerick. The competition proved very popular indeed!

25 Entries were received and can now be read (below).


It's congratulations to:


  • 1st place: Louise Welland - Eau de Toilette
  • 2nd place: Kay Hall - Airborne
  • Joint 3rd place: Chris McDermott - Finding Peace in the Woods; and Joanna Bawa - You Get What You're Given.


Many thanks to all who entered. 

ENTRIES 1 to 13

ENTRY 1 - Chris McDermott - Surviving With A Conscience (pdf)Download
ENTRY 2 - Sumi Watters - Holidays Gone Wrong (pdf)Download
ENTRY 3 - Christy McBride - The C word (pdf)Download
ENTRY 4 - David Elliott - A Trio of Prickly Poems (pdf)Download
ENTRY 5 - Sweeda Luintel - Spoonful Of Trauma (pdf)Download
ENTRY 6 - Pat Simpson - A Summer Garden (pdf)Download
ENTRY 7 - Jan Rees - Holiday Woes (pdf)Download
ENTRY 8 - John Hartley - Dishes served cold (pdf)Download
ENTRY 9 - Steve Clifford - Holiday Quirks (pdf)Download
ENTRY 10 - Ian Welland - Au Plein Air (pdf)Download
ENTRY 11 - Mike Lansdown - Give Us a Break (pdf)Download
ENTRY 12 - Joanna Bawa - Life Blood (pdf)Download
ENTRY 13 - Sumi Watters - Melania's Family Grievances (pdf)Download

ENTRIES 14 to 25

ENTRY 14 - Steve Clifford - Nature's Glory (pdf)Download
ENTRY 15 - Chris McDermott - Finding Peace in the Woods (pdf)Download
ENTRY 16 - Kay Hall - Airborne (pdf)Download
ENTRY 17 - Liz Shaw - Holidays of a Lifetime (pdf)Download
ENTRY 18 - Louise Welland - Eau de toilette (pdf)Download
ENTRY 19 - Sweeda Luintel - Fasting Festivals (pdf)Download
ENTRY 20 - Christy McBride - Birds by bird (pdf)Download
ENTRY 21 - Joanna Bawa - You Get What You're Given (pdf)Download
ENTRY 22 - Louise Welland - Next Of Kin (pdf)Download
ENTRY 23 - Ian Welland - Baked (pdf)Download
ENTRY 24 - John Hartley - Crabs, Crags and Crevices (pdf)Download
ENTRY 25 - Mike Lansdown - Relatively Normal (pdf)Download
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