I am pleased to have placed as the second prize winner in the Welshpool Poetry Festival Competition. You can download my poem to read . Congratulations to 1st prize winner Jeanette Burton, 3rd prize winner Julia Forster and all of the highly commended poets especially Emily Cotterill. You can watch me read the poem from my garden here: https://www.facebook.com/pat.edwards.106/videos/10216605661115837/ Prizes: 1st - £150. 2nd - £50. 3rd - £25. ‘ On the eve of my 40th birthday I watch a news report about a pet alligator ’ by Jeanette Burton. ‘ In this battle there won’t be many hugs’ by Susie Wild. ‘ At Nineteen I got a Tattoo to Inoculate Myself’ by Julia Forster. Poems awarded Highly Commended by Jonathan Edwards were: ‘Nan’ by Jan Westwood ‘It is difficult to write a poem with a dog on your kneen’ by Jeanette Burton ‘This Black Country Wenchn’ by Tina Cole ‘Motion, Emotionn’ by Alison Lock ‘Inconstant Gardenersn’ by Kathy Miles ‘Michael Sheen Ke...
Want a socially-distanced 1-1 poetry session with me? You can have one... if you donate to the new Young Poets crowdfunder to support young poets aged 10-17 in Wales here ... (Other poets are available).
Listen again to my husband playing original songs and covers on the lockdown Black Country radio the other night. I came back from the loo and was pulled to the sofa 1/3 through a song to do an unexpected, unrehearsed join in... 56 minutes in. He's on for 2 hours, and I recommend you listen to the whole show, I don't marry just anyone you know ;)
My two Cornwall-based poems from my debut collection 'Better Houses' in the current Cornwall/Wales issue of 'The Atlanta Review', available to read for free here: http://atlantareview.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Atlanta-Review-Spring-2020-04.30.20.pdf