Bradford on Avon Arts Festival Flights of Fancy Poetry Competition. Judge: Carrie Etter

Poems-on-a-Beermat Competition 2014

Bradford on Avon Fringe Festival Open Poetry Competition 2013

Words & Ears/Bradford on Avon Fringe Festival Open Poetry Competition 2012

Bradford on Avon Fringe Festival Poetry Competition 2011

First

Lesley Saunders, Berkshire

Adam

Second

John Glenday, Inverness-shire

A Pint of Light

Third

Roy Marshall, Leicestershire

Night Swimming

Highly Commended

Tammy Adams, Northumberland

Rock Plain Boxing Club

Russ Berry, West Midlands

How She Wrote Your Name

Rosie Jackson, Somerset

Night Sky

Ruth Roberts Owen, Gwynedd

Spell

Rick Rycroft, Somerset

Sunlight

Susan Utting, Berkshire

Pale

Sarah Westcott, Kent

Riverside

Sunlight

by Rick Rycroft

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Judge's Comments - Martin Malone

Sunlight was a cheekily simple and direct tongue-in-cheek take upon the competition theme rendered though the idiom of contemporary sales talk. It's a poem which would make me smile over my pint whilst reading a beermat.