[John Whitworth]

I hope I am allowed to do this, which is to suggest you gals and guys enter this poetry competition. For two reasons: 1. They are short of entries and need the money. This also means that people as sklled as you have an excellent chance of winning. 2. The judge.

31st January is the closing date. Look it up on the net. I've entered already so this is very selfless of me.

[Chris O'Carroll]

It looks as if they accept only postal entries, and you have to have a British bank account to pay the entry fee. I can't find any mention of an online submission and payment option. But I'd be happy to learn that I'm mistaken about that.

[John Whitworth]

I have put this to a higher authority, Chris.

[Brian Allgar]

I was amused to see this in one of the competitions on the PoetryKit site:

Accepting poetry of any style, on any subject, length 6 to 50 lines, blank lines included. Slightly longer poems will be accepted.

Err ... then why not specify the slightly longer maximum length?

[John Whitworth]

I think they are simply ruling out the green ink epics which exist I assure you. Perhaps 'any length that isn't bloody ridiculous'. I would say 'any poems you can get on one side of A4 which I can read without a magnifying glass.'

[John Whitworth]

This is the link to 'Torriano set up in poetry pf shop' for all you furriners out there who want some of their English gold.

www.poetrypf.co.uk/shop.php?sort=ur#tor

I hope that works. Go in and win.