Results of the 2016 Barrel of Monkeys Competition

Competition Longlist and Winners
 
Winners: selected by Alwyn Marriage (all will be published in “A Barrel of Monkeys” and receive a free copy of the book).
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First place:  (£50 + a 20 page pamphlet of their poems + ten copies)
The First Day of November by Richard Sellwood
 
Second place: (a 20 page pamphlet of their poems+ 5 copies)
Simplifying my Mother by Ray Diamond
 
Joint third place: (two free copies of the Anthology)
Youth by John Wheeler
North by Geoffrey Pimlott
 
Commended
What the Butler Saw by Ray Diamond
At the Chemist by Caro Reeves
 
Editor’s commendations
The Elephant in the Living Room by Trish Broomfield
This Summer by Karen Izod
 
Longlist (alphabetical order by poet’s name):
Space for Christina by Marcus Belassie
The Butcher by Trisha Broomfield
By the Radiator by Alicia Buller
You Got the Jitters by Alicia Buller
Big Bang by James Carter
Sandwich Boy by Alex Crumbie
Barcelona by Susan Evans
The Homecoming by Wendy Falla
Flight by Michael Farry
The Northern Line by Andy V Frost
The Spaces in Between by Bianca Hendicott
Bird Song Rhyme by Bianca Hendicott
Volunteers 1 & 2 by Andy B J Low
Grandad’s Sideboard by Andy B J Low
Green by Jeremy Loynes
The Bee Lesson by Kyle McHale
Year 3 are doing Music and Movement by Rochelle Parker
Into the Black by Joy Parry Collins
In the Café by Owen Ostler
The Ayenbite of Inwit byLorri Pimlott
Lord Nelson (born 1926) by Ray Pool
Memories by Ray Pool
Eve by Caro Reeves
Rookery by Richard Sellwood
DanceVoice by Pauline Sewards
The Dark is neither Wrong nor Right by Lt-Col Shyam Sharma (Rtd)
87,984 by Gareth Toms
Linley Beeches by Kathryn Tytler
Outside by John Wheeler
Exemplar by Sarah Watkinson
Monkey Minds by Sarah Watkinson

"A Barrel of Monkeys" will also include poems by
Bryan Baker
Dónall Dempsey
Bernard Kops
'Ghareeb Iskander
Hannah Linden
Alwyn Marriage
Steve Pottinger
Caro Reeves
Alex Twyman
Chrys Salt MBE
Janice Windle