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Top 100 Poets 2005 Edition

£3,000 Winner: Alan Millard

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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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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

 


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£3,000 Winner: Sally Spedding

Forward Press
Top 100 Poets 2005

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.

Our Forward Press Top 100 Poet of the Year 2005 is…

Alan Millard

from Hampshire!

Read winner Alan Millard's prize winning poem Insomnia and his biography in our Featured Poets section. Poets section.


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

Alan Glendinning

from Aberdeenshire!

Read Alan Glendinning's prize winning poem Beyond the Beat and his biography in our Featured Poets section. Poets section.  

 

and...

Nicola Poulton

from London!

Read Nicola Poulton's prize winning poem A Girl with Red Hair and her biography in our Featured Poets section. Poets section.


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


 Poet

Poem Name

Prize


Alan Millard

Insomnia

£3,000

Alan Glendinning

Beyond the Beat

£500

Nicola Jade Poulton

A Girl with Red Hair

£500

Valerie Calvert

If Only

£250

Carla Iacovetti

Pondering the Possibilities

£250

Alison J Mannion

Two Towers, 11-9-01

£250

Muriel Nicola Waldt

He’s Leaving Home

£250

M J Banasko

Brief Encounter

£100

S Barnard

Recall

£100

Judy Berkwicz

Scion of Hope

£100

Heidi Dungate

With or Without Reason

£100

Mark Fern

The Day they Took You Away . . .

£100

William A Mack

Quintessential Evil

£100

Valerie McKinley

Midnight Blue

£100

Patricia H Moore

Homeless Props

£100

M B Tucker

Eternal Love

£100

Morney Wilson

The Truth

£100

The Unknown Poet

If You Remember...

£50

Gemma Alexander

Blue Bedroom-Eyes

£50

Carolyn Bainbridge

Lost Hope

£50

Elsie Balme

To My Grandfather

£50

Norman Bissett

How to Win the Turner Prize

£50

Dorothy Blakeman

Causing Trouble

£50

Louise Booth

Fragility

£50

Adrian Brett

Who Wins?

£50

Sheila Brookes

My Mother, My Friend

£50

Pearl M Burdock

The Haven of Life

£50

Tony Bush

These Days

£50

Moira Jean Clelland

Autumn Poet

£50

Steve Cohen

Angels Awhile

£50

George Coombs

Parting

£50

Dawn Cowie

Words

£50

Leigh Crighton

Blackbird Dawn

£50

Carol Ann Darling

Winter Boldly Bare

£50

Peter Davies

Proof

£50

Una Davies

But for a Season...

£50

Benvenuta Di Bartolomeo

I Want to Change Me

£50

Deanna L Dixon

Just as Sure

£50

Tina Sanderson

Body Without Soul