Poetry Sessions 2010
Buxton Library Poetry Sessions 2010
Friday is Poetry Session Day at Buxton Library
Time of each Session is 12 noon until 1.30pm
Date of each Poetry Session is .....................
Friday February 5th
Friday April 9th
Friday June 4th
Friday August 6th
Friday October 8th (National Poetry Day 2010)
Friday December 3rd
A Friendly environment to read/perform your own Poetry (or someone elses) or just come along and listen.
Free. All welcome.
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Fridays, Feb 13th, Apr 17th, June 12th, August 14th, Oct 9th and Dec 11th.
All take place between 1.30pm - 3pm
All welcome.
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Lemon
by Ana Mulrooney.A blimp, a yellow blimp
Trying to strive for position
in diminishing fruit bowl.
Look closer and I see
I see a million dots
Living pods of life
keeping you together
Like me
You yearn to be sliced,
squeezed
emptied
freed of natural energy
You grew alone
you're shared with others
What's next in that fruit bowl
flowing with vitality
slipping with time.
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High Flight
by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds...and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of...wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew.
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
Buxton Poetry Competition Launch
The Peak District’s major literary competition – supported by the UK poet laureate Andrew Motion – was launched on National Poetry Day, Thursday October 9.
Poets of all ages have until April 1 2009 to create poems inspired by this year’s theme, ‘stone’, which is intimately connected with the competition’s beautiful Peak District origin. The White Peak’s stunning limestone landscape and the dramatic gritstone edges that shape the Dark Peak, form some of Britain’s best-loved countryside.
Winners of the Buxton Poetry Competition will have their work displayed in the spa town’s Devonshire Dome and read at an awards event during the Buxton Festival. The poet laureate Andrew Motion and Lady Jasmine Cavendish, daughter of the Duke of Devonshire, are the competition’s patrons.
The competition has three categories:
- Open Poetry for the over 19s
- Young People’s Poetry for entrants aged between 12 and 18
- Children’s Poetry for the under 11s
Entries will be assessed by a panel of distinguished judges including the award-winning poet Fleur Adcock OBE and Michael Schmidt OBE who is professor of Poetry at Glasgow University. Five finalists drawn from each category will feature in an exhibition held during the Buxton Festival, July 10 – 28 2009.
Writers may enter up to three poems. Entry is free for the Young People’s and Children’s categories and £5 per poem for the Open category. First prize in the Open category is £300, second prize £200 and third prize £100. The Children and Young People’s winners will receive book token prizes.
The contest proved highly popular in its inaugural year, 2008, drawing over 1,000 entries from as far afield as India and the USA.
Buxton Poetry Competition is run in collaboration between Buxton Festival and the University of Derby, Buxton. The competition compliments the Festival’s highly successful literary series and the University’s range of creative writing courses.
To enter contact Claire Rhodes at Buxton Festival:
01298 70395,
