Buxton poetry competition
Buxton town centre during Buxton Festival time.
Entry details and fees
- Please complete and return the form to enter the competition
- Entry to the Open Category is £5 per poem
- Entries to the Young People's and Children's categories are free
- Entries cannot be submitted by email
- Payment is by cheque only please make cheques payable to the University of Derby
- Payment by cash cannot be accepted.
Buxton Poetry Competition 2012 is now open!
To celebrate the 2012 Olympics and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee our theme this year is 'Welcome to Britain'. Use this theme to celebrate what's special about our country, highlight current issues, inspire reflection on being British or consider our impact on our environment and culture. Poems could focus on a particular place or figure from history, or on a British invention or sports; even our food and drink and weather. Our judges look forward to reading the many different perspectives this theme will generate.
The competition has three categories:
- Open Poetry - for poets aged 19 and over
- Young People's Poetry - for poets ages 12 to 18
- Children's Poetry - for poets aged 11 and under.
A message from the 2012 judges, Ann and Peter Sansom:
"We're sure this year's theme will bring in a really broad range of poems, reflecting our very varied society and great heritage. Poems that focus on a particular place or figure from history maybe, or on some British invention or (especially this Olympic year) the sports and games we play; even our distinctive (for better or worse) food and drink - even the weather! - any or all of these subjects might make a winning poem."
