Results of Rondeau Redoublé Contest
 

I am copying below the announcement from the Rondeau Roundup web site about the winners of Allison Joseph's contest for writing a rondeau redoublé. I was a finalist, and I think many of the other names are either members of Eratosphere or well known to most of you.

Susan


Dear Entrants:

I received so many fine examples of this complex form that I had to invent new categories for the winning poets:

Winner: $100 and publication on the Rondeau Roundup Blog
Toni Clark, for “Rondeau Redouble: Final Stage”

Finalists: $25 and publication on the Rondeau Roundup Blog
Susan McLean, for “Learning to Cope”
Tom Hunley, for “God’s Lonely Man”
Uche Ogbuji, for “Hellgate”

Publication Awards: Publication on the Rondeau Roundup Blog:
Tiel Aisha Ansari, for “How Our New Immigration Policies are Like the Bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef”
Joan Wiese Johannes, for “A Blooming Scandal”

I so enjoyed reading these poems—the level of craft was so very high! Thanks to all the folks who submitted poems for consideration.

The poems will be on the blog throughout the month of May.

Thanks so much,
Allison Joseph, Editor
The Rondeau Roundup

Congratulations, Susan. That's wonderful news.

The announcement says, "The poems will be on the blog throughout the month of May." Does that mean they've have been posted already and will stay up through May? Or does it mean they'll be posted May 1 and remain up through May 31?

Chris, I am guessing that it means that they will be posted one at a time through the month of May. Things posted on the blog stay there. Here is the link to the blog:

http://therondeauroundup.blogspot.com/

Susan

Kudos, Susan and Uche! Look forward to seeing your work at the site!

Congratulations, Toni, Susan and Uche! No mean feat!

Susan, is your entry a nod to Wendy's rr?

Sam, actually the contest was called the Learning to Cope Poetry Prize, so the contest name was a nod to Cope's roundeau redoublé. I know that poem well and have always wanted to write one like it, but did not have a subject. Fortunately, it occurred to me that learning to cope is a recursive action that would fit the form well. So the contest's title gave me a subject.

Susan

"There are so many kinds of awful men." A great opening line, and the poem gets better.

I am rereading Wendy Cope. What a pleasure!

Thanks, everyone! I am thrilled to have won first place. It's my first rondeau redoublé. Congrats to Susan and Uche, too!

Congratulatios al round. I wish I had seen this and been able to participate.

Huge congrats to all the winners. Look forward to reading them! All wow's to you!

Siham

Congrats, Susan!

Toni's winning rondeau redoublé is posted now:

http://therondeauroundup.blogspot.com/

P.S., there is also the announcement of a ballade contest at the same site, for those who are interested in giving that form a try.

Susan

Congratulations, Toni!

Susan, I can't find your coping rondeau. Is it still on the blog? Would love to read it.

Terese, I think the other finalists will probably be posted one at a time. Mine has not been posted yet.

Susan

My rondeau redoublé was posted today:

http://therondeauroundup.blogspot.com/

Susan

Brava!....

A lovely rondeau redoublé; congrats Susan.

Thanks, Julie and Andrew. The other two finalists' rondeaux are now posted at the same website. Uche Ogbuji and Tom C. Hunley take varied and interesting approaches to the form:

http://therondeauroundup.blogspot.com/

Susan

Brilliant feminist RR, Susan! Deep curtsies.

And Uche, Congratulations to you! Your four repetends are kick-ass and they really make the RR.