WestEustonPurplePoets

2007 Norah Platt Poetry Prize - more details

First Annual Norah Platt Poetry Prize  2006
poems from previous contests can be found in
Berkeley's Tree House Virtual Poetry Café

diorama gallery 4, Triton Square NWI
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sponsored The First Annual  Norah Platt Poetry Prize in 2006.
http://www.diorama-arts.org.uk/

THE NORAH PLATT
ANNUAL POETRY PRIZE


in memory of Norah Platt, West Euston Time Bank Poet

for press kit and further information
for all further Norah Platt Prizes,
please contact Tony Bloor
West Euston Third Age Project

West Euston poet Norah, was born 19th February 1924 and died 13 July 2005. The Norah Platt Poetry Prize has two categories:

ONE PRIZE of £100  for a poet, aged 70 or older
(to celebrate Norah's late start in admitting she was a poet).
2007 Judges Wendy French and Kim Morrissey

2006 judge: Kim Morrissey
2006 presented by Rose Hacker

THREE EQUAL PRIZES of £20 for a poet aged 12 or younger
(to encourage other young Norahs to start writing earlier).
2007 judges:  Heeron Begh, Shahanara Begum and Tony Bloor

2006 judges: Heeron Begh, Shahanara Begum and Tony Bloor
2006 presented by: Councillor Penny Abraham (Bloomsbury
                         Councillor Arthur Graves (Belsize Park)
                         Councillor Jill Fraser (Mayor of Camden)

starONE POEM IS ALLOWED PER POET.
starENTRY IS FREE.
starALL POEMS MUST BE UNPUBLISHED.
starALL POEMS MUST BE ONE PAGE OR LESS.
starALL POETS MUST LIVE IN THE BOROUGH OF CAMDEN
starTHE THEME OF THE POEM IS THE THEME SET BY THE POETRY SOCIETY FOR NATIONAL POETRY DAY.
2007 THEME:

IF YOU ARE UNDER 13, please write your name, age, the name of your school  and the telephone number of your school on the back page of your poem. You are allowed to send only one poem to the
contest. We will contact your school if you have won.

70 OR OVER, please write and your name, age and
address the back page of the poem and a self-addressed
stamped envelope if you would like your poem returned.
You are allowed to send only one poem to the contest.
Please include a telephone number or e-mail address so
we can contact you if you have won.


Permission to display the poems on the Presentation Day is a condition of entering the contest. Winning poets will have the opportunity to read with our Judges and the Purple Poets.

Please keep a copy of your poem;
we can not be responsible for lost items.
Copyright in all instances remains with the author.

Please mail (or e-mail)  your poem
to the West Euston Time Bank.


Norah Platt Poetry Prize
The West Euston Time Bank.
69 -75 Stanhope Street
West Euston, London
NW1 3LD

Telephone: 020 7383 4382
info@westeustontimebank.org.uk

to   e-mail your entry:  please click here

IF YOU ARE OVER 69
Please include
your name, age, address

IF YOU ARE UNDER 13:
(ONLY  include your name, the address of school)
and a telephone number for your school
so we can ring your school  if you have won

info@westeustontimebank.org.uk



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for press kit and further information,
please contact Tony Bloor
West Euston Third Age Project

History of the West Euston Poetry Project

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poems by the WestEustonPurplePoets

The Annual Norah Platt Poetry Prize is co-produced
by the West Euston Third Age Project and West Euston Time Bank.

West Euston Time Bank
Shahanara Begum
Time Broker
69 -75 Stanhope Street
West Euston, London
NW1 3LD
020 7383 4382


West Euston Third Age Staff:
Tony Bloor, Urmi Nurjahan
Heeron Begh and Karen Giffen
The Crypt, Munster Square

Kim Morrissey
Poet-in-Residence

020 7 383 4922
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