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Sonnet or Not 2025 Poetry Competition
is now open.
The 2025 prizes remain the same as last year. First prize £500, Second prize £250 and third prize £125
The Fee is £6 for the first poem and £3 for all subsequent poems. On your first submission, when you enter on line, £3 will automatically be deducted from the total if you submit three or more poems [i.e the third poem you submit is free].
This year's sole Judge is Ian Duhig.
Ian Duhig worked with homeless people for fifteen years before becoming a writer. He won the Forward Best Poem Prize once, the National Poetry Competition twice and his New and Selected Poems the 2022 Hawthornden Prize for Literature. 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb' was the Poetry Book Society 2024 Winter Choice.
Entry Form:
Please download the Sonnet or Not 2025 leaflet and read the rules before you enter.
How to Enter:
There are two ways to enter:
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Enter by post: complete the entry form and attach each of your poems on separate A4 sheets. Please only put the title of the poem and the poem itself on the sheets but do not put your name. Post the completed entry form, your poems and a cheque for the full amount due in £ sterling to the address indicated.
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Enter on line: click here and follow the instructions.
Cannon Poets
Sonnet or Not 2024 Poetry Competition
closed on 31 October 2024
Prize Winners
First Prize £500
The Boys by Jonathan Edwards
Second Prize £250
Back Yard by Emma Purshouse
Third Prize £150
Flames by Pratibha Castle
Commended £10
Dandelion Clock by Jeff Skinner
My Lover's Strapped Between the Stretcher's Rails by Andre Le Mont Wilson
Goddess of the aspiratioal working class by Emma Purshouse
Sonnet for Agnes Chow in Exile in Canada by Samuel Pitchford
Going to the Party by Marianne MacRae
Waking to brotherless days by Elizabeth Helen Kay
Church by Jonathan Edwards
The Man is Hanging a Door by Thea Smiley
After I die by Charlotte Couse
Kairos: in memorium Ian Parr by Sharon Ashton
Prize winning entries are published in the March 2025 issue of The Cannon's Mouth
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