The Competition Topic for Slough Writers Poetry Competition
Poetry is a barrow load of language in the market place of emotions. A bunch of colourful phrases; a clash of sights and sounds that rebound around the brain. Lines that convey pain or passion, fruitful in meaning or menace. It should paint a picture, recite a rhythm, shock, seduce, soothe, stir emotions, drive questions, or evoke strong pictures in the mind and the heart. Poetry should make connections between living and non-living, it should connect us to the world.
Poetry is the playground where words can swing, swirl, rise and fall, and carry a person to delightful heights. Poetry pleases, teases and tackles topical issues; poetry philosophises, proselytizes and proposes points of view. It gathers together words that enlighten or enrage, free-thinking and freewheeling right across the page. To the right or left or middle.
We will be looking for poems, whether narrative or imagist, that are accessible by which we mean the language should be accessible to most people, but with words chosen for their beauty, their sound, as well as their meaning.
We have decided to offer two themes for the competition in order to provide subjects that will inspire everyone.
Entrants have the freedom to pursue the subject in any way that thoughts and inspiration takes them.
Poems should be between 16 and 40 lines. One poem per entrant.
Poetry is the playground where words can swing, swirl, rise and fall, and carry a person to delightful heights. Poetry pleases, teases and tackles topical issues; poetry philosophises, proselytizes and proposes points of view. It gathers together words that enlighten or enrage, free-thinking and freewheeling right across the page. To the right or left or middle.
We will be looking for poems, whether narrative or imagist, that are accessible by which we mean the language should be accessible to most people, but with words chosen for their beauty, their sound, as well as their meaning.
We have decided to offer two themes for the competition in order to provide subjects that will inspire everyone.
- PLASTIC – not only the topical issues post-Blue Planet, but the malleability, pliability of matter, people, ideas, beliefs.
- FROM FIELD TO FORK - our dependency on the crops coming in, our farming history, the legacy of the land, our connection to the earth at home and further afield, the challenges and consequences.
Entrants have the freedom to pursue the subject in any way that thoughts and inspiration takes them.
Poems should be between 16 and 40 lines. One poem per entrant.
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