News from our competition winner

Nice to see that we have made it into Joan McNerney's bio details - you may recollect Joan was our competition winner of 2013 -

Details of this year's competition and its judge will be coming soon...but in the meantime you can read some of Joan McNerney's recent work in the splendid Oregon-based Blue Hour Magazine here http://thebluehourmagazine.com/2014/03/09/wintry-bouquet-by-joan-mcnerney/

Issue 7 poetandgeek.com out now

Lucky 7!

Cross over into the world of poetandgeek.com featuring new international poetry from Joan McNerney, Paul Tristram, Daniel Roy Connelly, Maeve Henry, Yann Rousselot, Fanni Suto, Marc Carver, Thomas Clark, Sheree Mack, Rafa Ayala in translation by Roger Hickin, Jane Aldous, Michael Lee Johnson, Sara Clark, Sye Sanders. And the alt-interview is back with the fearless Andrew Forster and Andrew Fisher.

Read more here http://www.poetandgeek.com/issue7/issue07.html

Poetandgeek.com competition 2013 results

Many congratulations to the winner of this year's poetry competition:

Joan McNerney (USA) for her poem Lost landscape. The judge's notes commended the poem's strong central metaphor, command of form and material both lyrically and in a manner reminiscent of Robert Frost "satisfyingly enigmatic".

The runners-ups are as follows:

Rafael Ayala Paez/Roger Hickin translation (Venezuela/New Zealand) - Impressions

Sheree Mack (UK) - Leaving home

The competition was judged by Scottish poet Andrew McCallum.

You can read all poems in Issue 7 - out soon - of poetandgeek.com.

Poetandgeek.com competition 2013 shortlist

Many congratulations to our shortlisted poets for the 2013 poetry competition.

They are as follows:

• Rafael Ayala Paez/Roger Hickin translation (Venezuela/New Zealand) - Impressions
• Joan McNerney (USA)- Lost landscape
• Sheree Mack (UK) - Leaving home

Results coming early October and all poems will appear in Issue 7 of poetandgeek.com.

The competition is being judged by Scottish poet Andrew McCallum: you can read his blog enchevêtrements here http://andramccallum2013.wordpress.com/

Andrew McCallum was born in Wellhead Farm Cottage, just outside Cleghorn, brought up in Carnwath, far frae his hame did wander on reaching his majority, and – after an absence of 25 years – bides back in Biggar, where he can see from his bedroom window, in a cleuch of the Hartree Hills, the farm cottage under the roof-tree of which his mother was born; a circumstance from which, being fond of circles and the completion thereof, he derives great satisfaction. He scribbles poetry, which has been reluctantly and against his better judgement published in twa-three magazines and a wheen o anthologies in Britain and America. He was a long time Secretary of Biggar Museum Trust’s Brownsbank Committee, which sponsors the Brownsbank Writing Fellowship, and convenor of Biggar Writers’ Group.