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Charles Causley Young Person’s Poetry Competition 2025 Winners 16-18yrs

The Winners of the Young Person’s Poetry Competition have been announced and in this post we’d like to share the...

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June 7, 2025

Charles Causley Young Person’s Poetry Competition 2025 Winners 11-15yrs

The Winners of the Young Person’s Poetry Competition have been announced and in this post we’d like to share the...

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June 7, 2025

Charles Causley Young Person’s Poetry Competition 2025 Winners 5-10yrs

The Winners of the Young Person’s Poetry Competition have been announced and in this post we’d like to share the...

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June 7, 2025

International Poetry Competition 2025 Highly Commended

In this post we would like to share three fantastic poems that earned ‘highly commended’ in our International Poetry Competition....

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June 7, 2025

International Poetry Competition 2025 Winning Poems

Enjoy the poems by the winners of the International Poetry Competition. Congratulations again to everyone! Complaints about pigeons and the...

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June 7, 2025

January Musings by Sue Wallace-Shaddad

Musings January 2025 After some lovely family time over Christmas and New Year, it is good to get back into...

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January 31, 2025

Reflecting on the Launch of The Drifted Stream with Sue Wallace-Shaddad

The Drifted Stream is an anthology created over the last two years as a tribute to Charles Causley, edited by...

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November 13, 2024

October Musings by Sue Wallace-Shaddad

There has been a slight hiatus in blogging over the summer but autumn brings my blog again (now once a...

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October 11, 2024

Young Person’s Competition: I have lived with mermaids by Mathias Adler

Sing to me O Muse, a real one. I wait expectantly by the bedside. Then: The sirens whisper at the...

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September 27, 2024

Young Person’s Competition: Within the greats by Bea Jopling

Challenging confederacy, Or questioning theocracy, Or standing to the face of their awful “democracy.”   Their leatherback notebooks cannot constrain,...

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September 27, 2024

Young Person’s Competition: Siren by Violet Wan

‘You could hear the sea from here. You might imagine, in the winter, it would creep up on to those...

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September 27, 2024

Young Person’s Competition: The Purple Beach by Mia Atkinson

a violet sky like a blanket,                             ...

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September 27, 2024
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