Thanks, Susan. I had a 0% chance of winning having submitted a poem of limerick stanzas with ott rhymes -- the exact opposite sort of thing that wins. However, I started this thread because I was pleasantly surprised at the winning entries (the 2015 ones were terrible). I don't think the winning poem is a great one, but it is decent, and the third place poem is loosely iambic and rhymes. There were apparently 12,000 poems entered, so one would assume there'd be a greater variety of form.
I'm not sure what kind of reputation the contest has in the UK. Maybe it is not as big of a deal as I assumed.
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