The Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre is delighted to launch its 2016 International Poetry Competition to celebrate the power of poetry across the world!
There are two stages to entering the competition:
1) Please visit the Brookes Shop and click on ‘Book Event’. Then you can register as a new customer and pay for your entry/entries.
2) Once you have paid, please e-mail your poems as separate attachments to poetrycomp@brookes.ac.uk You will receive an automatic e-mail in response, confirming that we have received your poem/s.
Please note that there is no entry form for this competition. We will match the details you submit via the Shop with your e-mailed poems. You can find further details about entering below.
This year’s judge is Daljit Nagra , the first poet to win the Forward Prize for both his first collection of poetry, Look, We Have Coming to Dover!, in 2007, and for its title poem in 2004. He is also the author of Tippoo Sultan’s Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!! (2011) and Ramayana: A Retelling (2013). Shortlisted for numerous prizes, including the T.S. Eliot Prize (in 2012 and 2014), Daljit was also selected as a ‘New Generation Poet’ by the Poetry Book Society in 2014 and is Radio 4’s first ever Poet-in-Residence from October 2015-October 2017.
The competition is open to both new and established poets aged 18 and over from across the globe, and has two categories:
◾ESL category (open to all poets over 18 years of age who write in English as a second language
◾Open category (open to all poets over 18 years of age).
The winners of each category will receive £1000 and both runners-up £200.
The competition deadline is midnight on 31 August 2016. There is a cost of £5 to submit one poem or £4 per poem for more than three entries. Entrants may submit as many poems as they wish, following the instructions in the Oxford Brookes Shop, but all entries must be unpublished work. Please read the full competition criteria and terms and conditions before entering.
To enter the competition, you must register and pay for your entries via the Brookes Shop, and then e-mail your poems as separate documents to poetrycomp@brookes.ac.uk
Abegail Morley 