Green Aire poetry competition – Hear the winning poets read their poems

Hirst Wood Lock in Saltaire.

Green Aire poetry competition – Hear the winning poets read their poems

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Date(s) - 15/09/2020 to 30/09/2020
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We are delighted to announce the winners of the Saltaire  Festival 2020 “Green Aire” Poetry competition.

We would like to thank all those who entered the competition and Kristina Diprose and Davina Silver, who judged the competition for us.

Please view the video to hear the poets read their work,

Adult, winners

1st “A river runs through it” 

2nd “Middle Catchment” 

3rd “Crossing the bridge”

Under 18 winner

Commended , “Freedom will return”  

We also have an added bonus, “Airedale”, a poem from one of our judges, her creative response to the competition.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank Irene Lofthouse for her poetry workshops which inspired many of you to enter the competition.

We hope you enjoyed listening to the poems.

Later in the year we will be publishing the winning poems and other submissions in the Saltaire Festival 2020 Poetry and  Prose Anthology.

Budding writers still have time to submit a story to the Green Aire Prose Competition, closing date midnight 20th September 2020.For further details