Poets invited to pen verse on their city
Published Date:
20 November 2008
By Staff Copy
PETERBOROUGH'S poets have been given the chance to win £1,000 by writing a rhyme about their home city.
The Local Poem competition is open to everyone in the UK, and is being run by United Press.
To enter, poets need to write their verse, which should be no more than 20 lines, or 160 words, about life in their home town before December 31.
A United Press spokesman said : “The competition is designed to encourage more people to get involved in writing poetry.
“We find that poems written from personal observation and experience are most heartfelt and expressive, so we are expecting some great entries from Peterborough.”
nSend poems to United Press ltd, Admail 3735, London, EC1B 1JB.
The full article contains 127 words and appears in Peterborough ET newspaper.
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Last Updated:
19 November 2008 4:16 PM
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Source:
Peterborough ET
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Location:
Peterborough
