Today, we are pleased to reveal the poems that have been included in the 2018 Selected Poems Anthology for United Kingdom & Ireland adult entries.
We had hundreds and hundreds of entries for this category this year and the Anthology selection is based on the original "long list" that we used for judging purposes.
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Full Contents: 2018 Selected Poems Anthology for United Kingdom & Ireland adult entries.
Poems:
A MOTHERS WAR - Lesley Spray, Ulverston, Cumbria
WEEP GENTLY MY SON - Sue Gerrard, St. Helens, Merseyside
Normandy 44 - Phil Pead, Rainham, Kent
"Pound of minced meat" part I - Richard C Wright, Birmingham
HOME FROM THE WAR, THE WARRIOR - Tina Morris, Lancashire
Tommy - Teresa Harrison-Best, Worthing, West Sussex
WINTER COMES - Tom Robason, Sunderland
The Recruiting Sergeant. - Kenny Moore,
And the beat went on. (Pantoum) - Stephen Pennell, Crewe, Cheshire
Pendle’s unseen war - Andrew Collinson, Sabden, Lancashire
SEPTEMBER 1939 - Isobel Thrilling, Skipton, Yorkshire
Mrs Owens Sunday Walk - Jean Maskell, Wirral
TO DIE A WARRIORS DEATH - Tony Andrews, Ashton Under Lyme
END HOUSE - Philip Burton, Bacup, Lancashire
Bullring Bairns - Nathan Ritchie, Broughty Ferry, Dundee
The Weather Forecast - Ian Colville,
Dressed to Kill - Diane Schofield, Dumfries & Galloway.
Unknown Soldier - John Black, Dungannon, Northern Ireland
"ignorance" - Chris Ainsworth, Rossendale
Physician Of The Soul - Barry Carter, Hull
Separated - K.E.N (Ken Ehud Nakamura), Epsom, Surry
White Feather - Tom Allport
The Last Drop - Dan Crocker, Burnley
The Return to Thankful - Greta Ross, Canterbury, Kent
NO BLITZ IN CIVVIES - Sandra Moran, Windsor, Berks
The Station - Andy West,
War in Mind - Hazel Andrews, Saltney, North Wales
Passchendaele - Andy Taylor, Exeter
The Mind Games! – Indu, Milton Keynes
The Elmingham Stony Village Band - Brian Charlton, Milton Keynes
Our Dearest England - Paul Crump, Newport, South Wales
Mrs Owen – Remembrance - Miriam Clare, Brighton, Sussex,
Spoils of War Tracy Davidson, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire
A View - John Newton - Perth, Scotland
Bayeux - Julian Bishop, North London
The Tick - Lee Mackenzie - Bramley, Guildford
Dover Calls - Andy Eycott, London
To the Death - Linda Burnett, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Heroes Speak Quietly - Lisa Lopresti, Ashton, Bristol
A War For What? - John Adams, Weymouth, Dorset.
Daffodil - Brigid Foley, Newport, Gwent
Sarajevo - Oliver James, Isle of Wight.
An Ignorant Man - Andrew Harper, Huddersfield
Under the Storm - Sara Davis, Tonbridge, Kent
Enemy Lines - Tasmin Talbot, West Bromwich, West Midlands
Entrenched Thinking - Richard Vidal, Epsom
The Dirtiest Trick - Alun Robert, Kent
Martyrs Bay - Heather Combe, Slough, Bucks
Ode to Autumn - Al McClimens
Caught in the Cross fire - Jenny Palmer, Twiston, East Lancs
Watchman - Thomas Moody, Ovington, Northumberland
Death Writes an Open Letter - Luigi Coppola, Sidcup, Kent
Running water at El Aghir - Dominic James, Chalford, Glos
THE LAST SOLDIER - Joyce Walker - Borehamwood, Herts
THE IRON NECKLACE - Derek Sellen, Canterbury
Fegefeur I - Steve Kettle - Llanelli, South Wales
The Ministry Of Offence - Graeme Darling - Jedburgh, Roxburghshire,
War Broke on Tongues - Ann Flynn - Kings Heath, Birmingham
First Day of the Somme - Nigel Smith - Guiseley, Leeds
HEROES' WELCOME - Steven Taylor - Kilburn, London
Hardcore - Stephen W Tucker – Clitheroe
BROTHERS IN ARMS - Robert Woollacott - Milton Keynes
Crossing Swords - Rebecca Schofield - Blackburn
ELEVEN ELEVEN ELEVEN NINETEEN-EIGHTEEN - John Notley - London
Pawn - Colin Dardis - Belfast
War Game - Mantz Yorke - Manchester
WAR POEM - Razeena Kramer - London
LIONS LED BY DONKEYS - Michael Bamber - Chorley, Lancashire
At Guillemont Wood (1917) - George W Colkitto - Paisley, Renfrewshire
Meeting The Lancaster - Alan Bryant - Swansea
The Fight- The Ganges Teacher - Warrington
From Benin to Belfast - Gaynor Kane - Belfast, Northern Ireland
The Fight - Emily Kelly - Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
' Not Forgotten ' - Allistair Kitson - Antrim, Northern Ireland
In a Gentle Way You Can Shake the World - Roddy Scott - Paisley, Scotland.
Valhalla II - Mark Sheeky - Crewe, Cheshire
BATTLEFIELD OF DISPAIR - Mick Connolley
The Keloid Girls - Jane Burn - Consett, County Durham,
THE LAST - Merryn Williams - Oxford
The many uses of stones - John Ling - Huddersfield
Silent Graves - Danielle Wootton - Weymouth, Dorset.
WAIT AND SEE - Janette Wootton – Gloucestershire
There Are No - Stephen Sells - Hertfordshire
The Other War - Cathy Bryant – Disley, Cheshire
Ellen - Harry Gallagher - Tyne & Wear
Monday - Maggie Mackay - Dunfermline
Liberté - Des Childs - Lichfield
Cadillacs Passing - Myrtle V - Buckhurst Hill, Essex
What Blood Do We Bleed - Aminatta Kamara – Moulsham, Chelmsford
He’s Coming Home To Us - Hanna Anaz - Beeston, Nottinghamshire
No one fires. It’s tremendous.- Lynda McDonald - Edinburgh
Kaiser Wilhelm - Phil Santus - Southampton
Shoot the Projectionist - Katy McGahan
Cannon Fodder - Winter Selby - Llanelli
Strength - Rem Wilson - London
Poppies - Angi Holden - Winsford, Cheshire.
St. Paul’s Tube Station - Diane Jackman - Diss, Norfolk
Remembering Sidney Keyes (1922-1943) the Poet of WWII - Andrew Davies - London
A Field Of Red Poppies - Tania Jackson – Bury, Lancashire
Lament Glasgow 1943 - Finola Scott - Glasgow
Stop..Start.. - Morna Sullivan - Co. Antrim, N Ireland
Maisons tolérées - Jessie Summerhayes – Matlock, Derbyshire,
Repatriate - Gill Lambert – Keighley, Yorkshire
206 Coffins - Linda Cosgriff - Stockport, Cheshire
HEARING A PIN DROP - Tim Cunningham - Billericay, Essex
Cat on a Wall - John Stiles, LONDON
Dispatches - Mike Lee - Wellingborough
Korean War Photograph, 28 August 1950, by Al Chang - Gene Groves – Morpeth, Northumberland
Education - Karen Ankers - Anglesey
Remembrance - Brenda Read-Brown – Tewksbury, Gloucestershire
War Flowers - Annabelle Fuller, Yorkshire
Friend - Kate Wilson - Beckenham, Kent
Beyond Help - Pippa Little - Cramlington Village, Northumberland
Steep - Colin Bancroft - County Durham
Six Nights - Elena Croitoru – Welling, Bexley
To the Angel at Vimy Ridge - Elaine Speakman, Ramsbottom, Lancashire
An Arabian Night - Rosemary McLeish - Selling, Kent
War - Ryan Roberts - Dunstable, Bedfordshire
Growing Pains - Stuart A. Paterson - Kirkbean, Dumfries and Galloway
Modern Warfare - Alison Prendergast - Cork, Ireland.
A Heart-Shaped Wood - Philip Howard – Penwortham, Preston
SOMEONE'S BUSINESS - Giles Constable, London
Grotesqueness of Hell - Trace Elliott - Isle of Sheppey, Kent
Sacrifice - Kieron P. Baird – Avonbridge, Falkirk
TOO YOUNG TO DIE - Anna L. Thoburn - Clitheroe, Lancashire
What is left for us? - Barbara Eszter Utasi – Dublin, Ireland
Stepping forward, stepping back - Sarah Evans, Welwyn Garden City
The Unknown Soldier - Karen Anne Fentum
Generation At War - Alice Saunders – Hitchin, Hertfordshire
Details of the Fallen - David Van-Cauter – Hitchin, Hertfordshire
Outmarching Fears To Conquer Frontiers - Catherine Mullen – Radstock, Somerset
Armistice Day - Jane Fuller - Port Logan, Wigtownshire
Rania’s Story - Angela Bailey - Leicester.
Where dost Thy Father Lay? - Beverley Mulvanerty - Lewes, East Sussex
The Trumpian Scholar - Leanne Spencer, Croydon
Cap Badge (Silver Horse) - Kathryn Wharton - Baildon, West Yorkshire
STRANGE CROP - Alison McNulty – Clitheroe, Lancashire
When Will They Come Home? - Amber O’Connor - Kent.
Shell-hole by Moonlight - Clare Proctor – Kendal, Cumbria
Eating With The Dead - Graham Burchell - South Brent, Devon
Written on the Commemoration of 100 years since the start of the Gallipoli Campaign -Jane Hopwood - Burton-in-Kendal, Cumbria.
Old Man, Novi Banovei, Serbia, 1995 - Joan Michelson - Haringey, London
The Theatres Of War - Jim Bennett – Wirral, Merseyside
Lessons Unlearnt - Kelly Darkins – Stourport, Worcestershire
A Letter I Wish I Had Sent You - Destiny Adeyemi - Lambeth, London
War In Our Streets - Miriam Long - London
Glint - Jack Houston
War On The Shore - Maggie Davison - Hexham, Northumberland
‘The First and the Last’ - Steven Jackson - Chalgrove, Oxfordshire
Eclipse - Egbuka izuchukwu (John)
Marathon - Ruth Aylett - Edinburgh
War Never Made Anything More Beautiful - Nick Allen - Saltaire, Bradford, West Yorkshire.
Friday March 15th 1918 - Graham Jones - North Walsham, Norfolk
July 1st 1916 - Neil Smith
"Walt Died of Wounds – " - Tabi Joy - Cheltenham
REDACTED - Isabel White, late of Higher Standen, below Pendle
Photos:
"Broken Hands" by Jane Crossen of Sheringham, Norfolk.
"WW2 Spitfire" by Charlie Wood of Birkenhead
"Arras Memorial" by Angela & Clive Eggleton
and "Visit To The Somme" by Sandra Godfrey
