CHAMPION POEMS

Selected Poems from the Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition (July 2009)

Editors:  Andy Willoughby and Bob Beagrie

Coffee (First Prize Winner) – Miles Cain

Enemy Funeral (Second Prize Winner) – Miles Cain

The God of Allotments (Third Prize Winner) – Mandy Pannett

Leaning into the Afternoon – Danny Bird

Summer 1990 – Teodora Totorean

The Frog Population – L. S. Mensah

A House By The Sea – Thomas Gayton

In Frome – Graham Burchell

The Maternity Leave – Miles Cain

The Sorrowful Wheel – Peter Wyton

Hood (The Outlaw Blues) – Stephen Holloway

Speed Bumps – Andy Humphrey

Undine – Noel Williams

Havin Fon – Charles Evans

I Would Like – June Drake

The Rooks of Killarney – Andy Humphrey

Evolution – Ellaraine Lockie

Thank You For the Music – Noel King

Skin Shedding – Janey Francis

A Bullet Regrets Its Existence – Miles Cain

 On Heat – Janey Francis

Tom Buchan: Missing Poet – Michael Pedersen

Equiano Meets Mama Lot – L. S. Mensah

The Convulsionary – Peter Wyton

Predator – Gabrielle Meadows

The Shrine – Kai Beanland

Right of Way – L. S. Mensah

Against the Locust - A Spell – L. S. Mensah

Last Goodbye – Janey Francis

The House – Michael Yates

Encounters With Crows – Ellaraine Lockie

Vinyl Groove – Avril Staple

This publication has now gone to press. All included authors will receive a free copy. We made a few changes, and have now made Champion Poems a magazine of selected poems from the Sentinel Literary Quarterly Competitions. This will be a quarterly magazine now published in November, February, May and August every year for as long as the competitions remain. The final publication date of the Publication is 27th  November.

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