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Top 100 Poets 2004 - Poetry Contests Anthology

Top 100 Poets 2004 Edition

£3,000 Winner: Angela Cheyne

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£8.99

 


Top 100 Poets 2003 - Poetry Contests Anthology

Top 100 Poets 2003 Edition

£3,000 Winner: George Coombs

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Top 100 Poets 2002 - Poetry Contests Anthology

Top 100 Poets 2002 Edition

£3,000 Winner: Lorna Meehan

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Top 100 Poets 2001 - The Leader in Free Poetry Contests

Top 100 Poets 2001 Edition

£3,000 Winner: Alan Chesterfield

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Top 100 Poets 2000 - Poem Contests Anthology

Top 100 Poets 2000 Edition

£3,000 Winner: Gary Jeffery

 


The First Top 100 Poets of the Year Anthology

Top 100 Poets 1999 Edition

£3,000 Winner: Sally Spedding

Forward Press
Top 100 Poets 2004

Prize Winners

The time has come to announce the winners of the annual Forward Press Top 100 Award. After much discussion we can finally announce our top 100 poets of the year.

Our lucky top winner will receive £3,000 and also have a selection of poetry printed in their own Slim Volume! The second prize winners will receive £500 each and also have their own book printed. Keep reading to discover who our winners are and read some of the winning poems and find out about the authors who wrote them.

Top 100 Article - Being a Judge

Our Forward Press Top 100 Poet of the Year 2004 is…

Angela Cheyne

from North West London!

Read winner Angela Cheyne's prize winning poem Urban Scene and her biography in our Featured Poets section.


Our Forward Press Top 100 Poet of the Year 2nd Place Winners are…

Karen Canning

from South Yorkshire!

Read Karen Canning's prize winning poem Visions of Never-Ending Dreams and her biography in our Featured Poets section.

and...

Catherine A Keohane

from Mid Glamorgan!

Read Catherine A Keohane's prize winning poem Departing Kiss and her biography in our Featured Poets section.


To read the biography of a prize winning poet, just click on their name.


 Poet

Poem Name

Prize


Angela Cheyne

Urban Scene

£3,000

Karen Canning

Visions of Never-Ending Dreams

£500

Catherine A Keohane

Departing Kiss

£500

Dave Austin

Autumn’s Reflection

£250

Marisa Greenaway

The Escape

£250

Marian Theodora Maddison

Silhouette

£250

David G Seiglow

To See You One More Time

£250

Natalie Clark

Half of Me

£100

Ken Copley

The One True Way

£100

Terence Leslie

The Leaves Fell One By One

£100

Ricky N Lock

The Bridge

£100

Brandon Gene Petit

The Unwritten Quest

£100

Neil Roper

Planet Earth

£100

Geraldine Frances Sanders

First Love

£100

Val Shedden

Salt and Sky

£100

Michelle Towler-Tipping

Gratitude

£100

Mark Vanner

It Only Hurts When You Walk Away

£100

Carolyn Atkinson

I Heard Her Call Me from Far Away

£50

Santal Bahh

My Spirit Cries

£50

Jean Bailey

Spring Time

£50

Joan Barnett

Love Shadowed Us

£50

Ian Bowen

Clouds the Enemy of Light

£50

Phyllis Bowen

Secret Place

£50

Victoria Brant

Unpredictable

£50

Karen Brierley

Double Sided Coin

£50

Helen Bulford

Lovers’ Rock

£50

Diane Burrow

Death on the Moon

£50

Laurence DE Calvert

Desert

£50

Pamela Carder

My Love

£50

Mary Carroll

A Sea of Dreams

£50

Jonathan Covington

The Bitter-Sweet Bugle Call

£50

Carol Ann Darling

In Fields of Blue

£50

Michelle Dixon

2WW3

£50

R Donald

Orpheus Silenced

£50

R Faber

My Unit

£50

Ruth Fellows

Jackie's Poem

£50

Madge Gilbey

Conformity

£50

Irene Grahame

The Darkness of Wintertime

£50

Frances Gwynn

Grief

£50

Elizabeth Haruna

A Deeper Awareness

£50

Margaret Anne Hedley

God is Always There

£50