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NATURE AND Entries Open

PLACE

POETRY Now For 2020

COMPETITION 49th Bronze
2020

The Rialto working in association with the RSPB, BirdLife Interna- Swagman Awards
tional and the Cambridge Conservation Initiative
Poems are invited that deal with any aspect of nature and place –
these terms will be given a wide interpretation by the judge.
Closing Date May 1st 2020.
PRIZES Entries for the 2020 49th annual
1st prize – £1000 Bronze Swagman Award
2nd prize – £500 for Bush Verse
3rd prize – £250 are now open with
ADDITIONAL PRIZES information at
A personal tour with Mark Cocker of his most cherished wildlife www.bronzeswagman.info
places in East Anglia.
MARK COCKER is one of Britain’s most celebrated writers on Jeff Close,
nature. His most recent book, Our Place, is essential reading for Hon Co-ordinator
all environmentalists. He is also author of Birds and People, the
award winning Crow Country, and of Birds Britannica. He writes closeandmoller@gmail.com
and broadcasts regularly in national media and his column in The Closing Date
Guardian has run for more than 30 years.* 30th April 2020
*The prize does not include the cost of travel or accommodation.
JUDGE
Pascale Petit
Pascale Petit’s seventh collection, Mama Amazonica (Bloodaxe,
2017), won the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize 2018
– the first time a poetry book won this prize for a work of fiction,
non-fiction or poetry best evoking the spirit of a place. It was also
shortlisted for the Roehampton Prize and was a Poetry Book Soci-
ety Choice. Her eighth collection, Tiger Girl, due from Bloodaxe in
2020, won a Royal Society of Literature ‘Literature Matters’ Award
while in progress. Four of her earlier collections were shortlisted
for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Petit is a recipient of a Cholmondeley
Award and in 2018 was elected as an RSL Fellow.
You can submit up to six poems in one batch, the entry fee for the The Best Country Music has to offer
first poem is £7 and includes an administration fee, the fee for Walk ups welcome
each subsequent poem in the batch is £4. Outstanding Guest artists
If you wish to submit more than six poems you will need to make a In a hall filled with friends you may not have met yet
second submission which will include a second administration fee. Second Sunday Each Month
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from Submittable regarding your submission and transaction.
If you have any queries regarding the competition please contact From 11.00 am
matt.howard@therialto.co.uk Admission $7
Children under 16 Free
Contact Janice: Home 07 3408 8193
Mobile 0403 481 943
Email jantezza1@bigpond.com
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