Poetry Anthology Competition 2010
This competition has now closed to submissions.
Thank you to all poets who have entered poems on the theme of extinction and congratulations to all of you who have made it onto the shortlist.
Final judging of the poems will take place shortly, with results announced here by mid-October (after the winners from each category have been informed).
Combined category shortlist:
A Letter to God (Derek Ward, Cornwall)
Annihilation (Karen Francis, Sussex)
Bricks and Mortar (Amy Nielson Smith, East Sussex)
Diplodocus (Ian Shakles, Worcestershire)
Dodo (Wendy Onslow, Hampshire)
Down to Me (Michael Alexander, Gramat, France)
Endangered Peoples (Christa Michaels, Memphis, USA)
Evidence (Wendy Cunliffe, Cumbria)
Final Sunset (Ashley Owen, Bromley)
Having Walked the Dodo Trail (Harry Hudson, Oxford)
I am Man (Michael Alexander, Gramat, France)
Last of My Kind (Viv Elsworth, East Sussex)
Lessons from Extinction (Eleanor Dobson, Surrey)
Meteor (Viv Elsworth, East Sussex)
Missing You (Elaine Graydon, Hampshire)
Nagasaki (Maureen Anne Browne, Co. Down, Northern Ireland)
Neanderthal (Faye Robertson, Kerikeri, New Zealand)
No one Knows (Jonathan Clifford-King, Buckinghamshire)
One Small Voice (Jean Hammond, Hampshire)
Orphan (Peter Gillot, Wiltshire)
Predators (Claudia Howard, Anglesey)
Searching for Fossils with Aunt Alice (Christian Ward, Kingston-upon-Thames)
Seeing Stars (Eileen Farelly, Glasgow)
The Dinosaur Excavations in Alberta Badlands (Don Nixon, Wolverhampton)
The Earth, Silent (Derek Ward, Cornwall)
The Extinction of the Dinosaurs (Ella Kershaw, Devon)
The Hula Painted Frog (Emma Stoffer, Hampshire)
The Rug (Shirley Elmokadem, Sussex)
The Stalker (Seamus Harrington, Cork)
The Sun King (Danielle Clark, Lincolnshire)
Thing of the Past (Joe Muscat, Hampshire)
Visiting the Natural History Museum, aged 10 (Christian Ward, Kingston-upon-Thames)
Where's the acid-free Tissue Paper (Samantha Newbury, Luton)