Cardiff International Poetry Competition 2009

Cardiff International Poetry Competition

Judges are poets Ian McMillan, Kurt Heinzelman and Tiffany Atkinson.

Eligibility: poems of are 50 lines or less, unpublished, in English and not a translation of another author’s work.

Ian McMillan, who has been a poet, broadcaster and commentator for over 20 years, has this invaluable advice for would-be entrants: ‘I often enter competitions, and I pretend that I’ve been commissioned to write a new poem for a magazine that the judge is the editor of. I try to remember that a competition-winning poem has to stand on its own two (metrical) feet; has to amaze and delight the jaded judge on first reading and then impress the jaded judge on a second and third and fourth reading in the cold light of day.’

To receive an entry form through the post send a stamped, self addressed envelope to: Academi, CIPC09 Entry Form, Mount Stuart House, Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff, Wales, CF10 5FQ, United Kingdom.

Visit www.academi.org/cipc/ for further details and to download the entry form.