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Poetry London Competition 2009

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Closing date: 
1 June 2009
Entry: 
Entry fee £5 Open to all poets writing in English.
Prize: 
First Prize £1,000 Second Prize £500 Third Prize £200, with four commendations of £75

Poetry London Competition

Run by Poetry London magazine

Closing date 1 June 2009

Entry fee £5

First Prize £1,000

Second Prize £500

Third Prize £200, with four commendations of £75

Open to all poets writing in English.

Maximum length 80 lines.

This year's Judge will be the distinguished poet Don Paterson, who has twice won the T S Eliot Prize for Poetry for God's Gift to Women and Landing Light, which also won the Whitbread Poetry Prize. He is also editor of the Picador poetry list.

Competition rules and downloadable entry form

Closing date: 
1 June 2009
Entry: 
Entry fee £5 Open to all poets writing in English.
Prize: 
First Prize £1,000 Second Prize £500 Third Prize £200, with four commendations of £75