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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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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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Young Person’s Competition: The Purple Beach by Mia Atkinson
a violet sky like a blanket, ...