Public and Private Faces: Poetry and the Portrait

Bristol Poetry Institute Poetry Competition

In collaboration with the Royal West of England Academy, the Bristol Poetry Institute (BPI) is pleased to announce a poetry

competition and a masterclass in ‘poetry and the portrait’ to accompany an exhibition of portraits by acclaimed American

photographer Judith Aronson whose work is held in many leading private and public collections, including the National Portrait

Gallery, London.

The exhibition, entitled, Likenesses, runs 8 February – 20 March 2014 and includes portraits of many well known literary

figures, including poets Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Anne Ridler, Charles Tomlinson, Derek Walcott, and American poets

Rosanna Warren and Robert Lowell.

The Wenlock Poetry Competition 2014 is now open for entries.

We look forward to receiving your entries. Your poem(s) may be on any subject, up to 40 lines, previously unpublished.

Three prizes are awarded – first prize £500, second prize £200, third prize £100 – and one poem will be judged as Highly Commended.

All shortlisted entrants will be named.

For the 2014 competition, the judging panel is led by Daljit Nagra. Daljit writes:

I am looking for poems that come in any forms and sizes, that are comic or serious, that are sure of themselves or that have no idea what

they’re about. What I am essentially looking for is a poem that will excite, shock, surprise or humour me. The best way to achieve one or

more of these effects is by ensuring the poem is well crafted. I am looking forward to reading the entries.

After a highly successful debut year in 2013, the York Mix / York Literature Festival’s poetry competition returns.

Read more about it in judge Carole Bromley’s poetry blog here. Entry is £5 per submission, and each

submission allows for up to three poems.

To enter go to our online entry form here.

Prizes

First prize: £250

Second prize: £100

Third prize: £50.

The York prize (£40) will be awarded to an excellent poem from an entrant with a York postcode.

Five Highly Commended, and ten Commended poems will each win their writer a certificate.

First call for candidates for Bard of Exeter 2014.

Are you a poet, songwriter or storyteller? Enter the Exeter Eisteddfod with a chance of being elected Bard of Exeter for a year and a day.

Elected by audience vote at a competition at the Bike Shed Theatre, on 23rd February.

More details for anybody interested via an email to Simon Williams at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.