October 12th, 2017

I made the top 10 of the 2017 Poetry on Loan Competition with a poem "Carrying the Fire" which goes way back to Jo Bell's 52 Group prompts and which I've never published or entered in a competion before! The theme was Onwards, Upwards, Freedom. As the Staffordshire Poet Laureate was the competition winner and bagged two of the other top spots I guess I am in agood place! 
This is what the competition describe as their "long short list"
 Bridges, Bert Flitcroft
Uprooted, Lindsey Bailey
Roots to freedom, Ros Woolner
Fradley airfield, Bert Flitcroft
Climbing Helvellyn, Shelagh Wain
Free diver, Brendan Shields
Carrying the fire, June Palmer
Gliding, Shelagh Wain
I can(not), Stephanie Hutton
Bridge, Andrea Mbarushimana
Aspiration, Paul Fraincis
The story, your story, Pauline Woodhouse
High flyer, Anne Harding
Sahara trek, Andrea Mbarushimana
The ladder, Paul Francis
A bid for freedom, Debbi Voisey
The butterfly, Toni Jackson
I rise, Jason Nicholas Smith