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Featured
Poets 2005
This
section aims to showcase poets
by presenting a selection of
their work and a biography
based on their writing career.
If you
would like to be a Featured
Poet on the website, please
submit a biography with a
photograph and a small
selection of your poems.
Submission
Guidelines 
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Mark
Roope
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of December 2005 Online
Competition
Words
have always held magical
qualities for me from as
far back as I can
remember.
They
are like artists paints
which we put down in some
kind of order upon a blank
canvass to hang on the
wall.
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Kevin
Raymond
Winner
of our Top
5 Poets of
November
2005 Online
Competition
I've been writing
poetry for about
five or six years
now, Its been
really exciting to
see some of my
stuff published by
the Forward Press
on their site and
in some of the
many compilations
that they put out.
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Linda
Howitt
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Linda
Howitt
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of October 2005 Online
Competition
I’ve
always
loved
writing
and the
way so
much
atmosphere
can be
expressed
with just
a few well
chosen
words.
However, I
have to
confess
that while
I love
reading
poetry it
is not
something
I paid
much
attention
to writing
until
fairly
recently.
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Alan
Millard
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Alan
Millard
Top 100 Poets of the Year Award
2005
1st Prize Winner of
£3,000
I
was born in
Yeovil,
Somerset,
the youngest
of four. My
interest in
poetry was
encouraged
by a teacher
who secretly
sent one of
my poems to
Young
Elizabethan
and then
presented
me, at the
age of
eleven, with
the magazine
containing
my first
published
poem and a
ten-shilling
note from
the
publisher.
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Alan
Glendinning
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Alan
Glendinning
Top 100 Poets of the Year Award
2005
2nd Place Prize Winner of £500
Alan,
who lives in
a small
Aberdeenshire
village, was
born in
Glasgow,
educated in
Berkshire
and Dorset,
before
returning to
Edinburgh
where he
studied
electronic
engineering.
He works as
a multimedia
technician
and radio
studio
instructor
at Aberdeen
College.
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Nicola
Poulton
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Nicola
Jade Poulton
Top 100 Poets of the Year Award
2005
2rd Place Prize Winner of
£500
I’m
18 years old
and I’ve
just taken
my A-Levels
in drama,
English
literature
and history.
I’m hoping
to go to
university
later this
year to
study drama
and creative
writing.
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Valerie
Calvert
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Valerie
Calvert
Top 100 Poets of the Year Award
2005
Runner up Prize Winner of
£250
I
was born
January 28th
1940 and
lived in
Stamford
Bridge, East
Yorkshire
where I
attended the
local
primary
school.
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Carla
Iacovetti
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Carla
Iacovetti
Top 100 Poets of the Year Award
2005
Runner up Prize Winner of
£250
Born
in Chicago
to classical
musician
parents,
Carla
Iacovetti
was doused
into the
fine arts
and the
world of
literature
at birth.
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Alison
Mannion
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Alison
J Mannion
Top 100 Poets of the Year Award
2005
Runner up Prize Winner of
£250
Raised
in
Hampshire,
one of eight
children, I
consider it
my home
county.
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Muriel
Waldt
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Muriel
Nicola Waldt
Top 100 Poets of the Year Award
2005
Runner up Prize Winner of
£250
I
am 56 years
old and
married with
three boys.
I work
part-time at
my local
library,
which
enables me
to indulge
my passion
for reading,
mostly
thrillers
and crime
novels with
an
occasional
‘light and
fluffy’.
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Martin
Banasko
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Martin
James
Banasko
Top 100 Poets of the Year Award
2005
Runner up Prize Winner of
£100
I
am a child
of the
fifties,
born in
Liverpool,
where my
early
education
took place.
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Susan
Barnard
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Susan
Barnard
Top 100 Poets of the Year Award
2005
Runner up Prize Winner of
£100
My
name is
Susan
Barnard. I
am in my
early
fifties and
was born in
Bucks and
have lived
in Bucks all
my life.
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Mark
Fern
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Mark
Fern
Top 100 Poets of the Year Award
2005
Runner up Prize Winner of
£100
I
am 39 years
old. I live
in a small
village
called Cam
in
Gloucestershire.
I have been
writing
poetry for
the last ten
years or so.
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William
Mack
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William
Andrew Mack
Top 100 Poets of the Year Award
2005
Runner up Prize Winner of
£100
I
was born,
reared and
educated in
Belfast,
Northern
Ireland, and
am still
resident
there.
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Patricia
Moore
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Patricia
Helen Moore
Top 100 Poets of the Year Award
2005
Runner up Prize Winner of
£100
I
am a
38-year-old
woman who
loves to
write.
Writing is
my life,
words are
the tool,
and
determination
is the key
to my
success.
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Morney
Wilson
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Morney
Wilson
Top 100 Poets of the Year Award
2005
Runner up Prize Winner of
£100
I
was born in
Scotland,
moved to
London when
I was 5
years old
and have
lived here
for 30 years
now.
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Ben
Hamilton
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of September 2005 Online
Competition
Ben
Hamilton, I
was born and
bred in
Stone-in-Oxney
in 1958 (A
man of
Kent),
although
temporarily
exiled to
Hastings.
I have toyed
with poetry
on and off
since
leaving
school but
have
regarded
myself as
neither
readable nor
prolific.
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Sam
Kelly
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of August 2005 Online
Competition
Sam
Kelly, my
pen name, is
an
indication
of how I see
my poetry
and how I
relate to
it. Using a
different
name makes
my writing a
performance,
like an
actor
assuming a
stage
persona, and
it helps me
empathise
with the
people that
I imagine
myself to
be.
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Shirley
McIntyre
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Shirley
McIntyre
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of July 2005 Online
Competition
I
was born in 1950
and I have enjoyed
the combination of
words and humour
for as long as I
can remember.
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Melinda
Penman
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Melinda
Penman
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of June 2005 Online
Competition
I
was brought
up in the
sleepy, but
picturesque
town of
Monmouth in
the Wye
Valley,
taking a lot
of interest
in reading,
singing,
playing
music and
writing from
an early
age.
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Rachael
Ajao
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Rachael
Ajao
Winner
of our Top 5
Poets of May
2005 Online
Competition
Rachael
has been
writing (on
and off) for
as long as
she can
remember.
Even as a
child, she
would talk
in rhyme for
her own
amusement,
much to the
annoyance of
those around
her.
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Charles R
Wyvill
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of April 2005 Online
Competition
I am a 25 year old guy, originally from North Uist in the Western Isles. Presently I reside in Perth with my girlfriend Ashlee and our 2 rabbits.
My first attempts at creativity involved learning the basics on the drums and guitar when I was 16 and writing some very rudimentary lyrics.
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Samantha
Walsh
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of March 2005 Online
Competition
I'm a 39 year old mum to three wonderful daughters and live in the West Yorkshire region.
I used to write poetry many years ago in my school days but only recently began writing again.
Most of my work is based upon the moods and feelings I have felt over the last couple of years.
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Karen Smith
Winner
of our Top 5 Poets of February 2005 Online
Competition
As a child I enjoyed reading poetry but didn’t really turn my hand to writing until recently. For the past six years I have worked as a teaching assistant and during this time I have been amazed at the impact that poetry can have on children’s learning.
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Submission Guidelines:
Poems of no more than 30 lines in length each will be
considered.
Post your poems to
Featured Poets, Forward Press Ltd,
Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive, Peterborough PE2 9JX (Write your name and
address on each piece of work you send)
Or email your poems to inbox@forwardpress.co.uk
(Enter Featured Poets in the subject line, including your name and
postal address)
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