Poetry and Creative Writing for All

Online Poetry Competition 2007

Every month we hold The Top 5 Poems of the Month competition.

The writer of the best poem wins a web page of their own in our Featured Poets section, to showcase some more of their work.

To submit a poem to the Online Poetry Competition, email inbox@forwardpress.co.uk (Enter Top 5 Poems of the Month in the subject line, including your name and postal address)

Or post your poems to Top 5 Poems of the Month, Forward Press Ltd, Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive, Peterborough PE2 9JX (Write your name and address on each piece of work you send)

The Top 5 Poems of the Month - December 2007

Racing the Train - Margaret Pedely

Train to Simla - Sara Brummer

Shadow People - Christine Bridson-Jones

Commuter - Susan Vango

Lexy - Jenny Avery

The Top 5 Poems of the Month - November 2007

Vigil - Keith Robson

Sniper - Alex Conrad M.Seno

Resigned - Sybille (Sydney) Krivenko

In My Dreams - Sue Gurney

The Journey - Judith Iliff

The Top 5 Poems of the Month - October 2007

Let there be Peace - Alison Wade

High Tech 2007 - Susan King

Slave - Steve Gracie

The Pedalo - Sheila Gee

Beloved Friend - B.G.Ryan

The Top 5 Poems of the Month - September 2007

Forgotten Paradise - Rob Cunningham

Paranoia - Kelly Louise Welch

Eleventh Hour - Sania Sajid

Waiting - Ms B Khatoon

Finding Mum - Sheila Whitmill

The Top 5 Poems of the Month - August 2007

Architect of my Disaster - Diane Crouch

Over a Weeping Flood - David Lin

Dust - Richard Green

I Watch the Day Retreat to Dusk - James McEnaney

Love Engaged, Enticed and the Ended - Paul Willis

The Top 5 Poems of the Month - July 2007

I Wrote her name upon the Sand - Andrew Blakemore

Artistry Divine - Victorine Lejeune-Stubbs

The Map of Life - Stephen J Stirk

As I Look Out My Window - Taryn Whittles

NIGHTMARE - Paul Birkitt

The Top 5 Poems of the Month - June 2007

Urban Housewife Werewolf - Clive Atkins

Global Warming? - Ian A Morrison

Soaked and Left - Sarah Dawes

Autumn 1969 - Daffni Percival

Innocent Love - Anne - Marie Sane

The Top 5 Poems of the Month - May 2007

Vanity - Angelita Redfern

Resigned to Freedom - Norma Fraser Reid

Around the Lake - Andrew Blakemore

Memories of Grandpa - Timothy James

One Office, one Morning - Lauren Turner

The Top 5 Poems of the Month - April 2007

Remote Control - Ann Potkins

Ode to the great poets - Cheryl Nicholls

Thin Days and Shallow Brown / April - Hayes Turner

Rickety Raggedly Man - George Speechley

I don't know why? - Stacey Orford

The Top 5 Poems of the Month - March 2007

Letter from Stephen - Clare Hunter

Hard to Bear - Chris Sullivan

You - Georgina Elsmere

Bi-Polar Disorder - Joyce Langlands

Sunrise, Sunset - Lindsey Priest

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The Top 5 Poems of the Month - February 2007

To Christine - Dave Pearson

Wishful Thinking - Jane Colbore

Insomnia - Angie Walker

An Old Sailor Returns - Fleming Carswell's

Older Order - Michael Bryant

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The Top 5 Poems of the Month - January 2007

Feline - Ed Cesar

This Spirit - Lee Mackenzie

Small Life - Mary E. Gold

Next Week I Will Go to Barentu - Pete Crowther

Poppies - Joan M Jones

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The Top 5 Poems of the Month Competition is judged by our imprint editors, and all entries that are not used will be considered for publication in new Forward Press anthologies.