The Ledbury Poetry Competition has opened for entries, with a closing date of 10 July. All poets writing in English are eligible, no matter where they live.
Poet Philip Gross will be the judge. He said: "What I'll be looking for...? Poems that aren't whatever I might think I'm looking for. Poems intent on being wholly, intensely themselves, regardless of what a judge, the zeitgeist or even their author might want them to be. Poems that have to be poems because they couldn't be expressed in any other way."
The first prize for the competition is £1,000 cash and a week's poetry course at Arvon.
Second Prize is £500, and third prize is £250.
The winners will be invited to read at Ledbury Poetry Festival in 2024.
The Ledbury Poetry Festival runs 30 June - 9 July.
