Competition 

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B.O.A.T

BEST songs OF ALL TIME

poetry competition

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We are delighted to announce the winners

of the Best Song Of All Time (B.O.A.T) Competition

The longlisted poets who will all feature in our first

Best of All Time anthology

will be posted soon. 

Thank you to Emma Purshouse for her sterling judging

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First prize:  Rob Walton – The Fan Club Manifesto Newsletter Proposal

Second prize: Thea Smiley – The Tree Museum

Third prize: John Woodall –  Making Tea for my Wife While Discussing the Nature of Love with Whitney Houston

 

Highly Commended:

Sheila Jacob – An Overture to Mr Blue Sky

Andy Humphrey – Requiem

Lucy Heuschen – Stay Away from MacArthur Park

Helen Kay – Athens in December Unplugged

 

Commended:

Laura Strickland – Road Trip

Derek Sellen – The Best Song of all Time …

Thea Smiley – Reggae Got Soul

Penny Blackburn – River

Pat Edwards –  The First Time

Kelly Davis – Imagine

 

And here is the longlist:

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/Rain clouds/ মেঘ/Mēgh/-- Devjani Bodepudi

247?  Are you shitting me? – Rob Walton

A Cure For Homesickness – Sheila Jacob

A daughter reassures her father – Lisa Falshaw

A1 Drive to Beadnell – Sam Egelstaff

All The Single Ladles – Emilie Lauren Jones

An Earful of Waxwings –

Lauren K Nixon

Anarchy In the UK – Julie Elizabeth Griffiths

Another Town Called Malice – Julie Elizabeth Griffiths

Avril, George and I – Kuli Kohli

Beautiful Dreamer – Julie Elizabeth Griffiths

Beautiful Girl – Monique Harris

Before the Dawn, Hammersmith Apollo, 2014 – Andy Humphrey

Brassed off – Sharon Phillips

Bridge Over Troubled Water – Laura Strickland

Carol 4 Jimmy – Alan Mansell

Could You Be Ravioli? – Lauren K Nixon

Days of our lives – Susan E Butler

Diamonds are a girl’s best friend – Mandy Macdonald

Drive – Doryn Herbst

Everybody hurts – Ali Murphy

Fat Bottomed Girl – Emma Dandy

Favourite Things – Jenny Robb

Flashback – Sharon Larkin

Following the Piper – Elizabeth Holt

From The Bottom Of My Heart – Sheila Jacob

Goodbye England's Rose – Sharon Phillips

Graveyard Charms and Tributes: CD, Rick Astley – Lucy Heuschen

Here Comes The Sun – Penny Blackburn

Hotel California – Andrea Mbarushimana

House of the Rising Sun – Linda Marshall

How to be a boy in 1980s Birkenhead – Andy Humphrey

I Could Never Be Your Woman – Penny Blackburn

I wanna dance with somebody – Sarah L Dixon

Imagine – Kelly Davis

'I’m happy just to dance with you': the home movie – John Sewell

It’s the best song of all time – Ruth Higgins

Jimmy taught me to play Stairway to Heaven in the potting shed – Bean Sawyer

John Creedon, King of the Waves – Mary Mullen

Karaoke machine for hire:  – Rob Walton

Lasagne and Chicken New Yorker – Rachel Glass

Leaving Home – Mandy Macdonald

Lili Marleen – David Bleiman

Lonely Boy – Gary Ackroyde

Love Me Do -- Pratibha Castle

Love is a Battlefield – Julie Elizabeth Griffiths

Love is like a butterfly — Tonnie Richmond

Masters Of War – Gary Ackroyde

Musical Sex-Ed: A Quiz – Ann Kaloski

My Girl – Maggie Mackay

 

National Offer Day – Suzanna Fitzpatrick

Nineteen in L.A. – Charles Lauder, Jr

Nothing compares to you – Ali Murphy 

Oh sweet child of mine –    Abigail Ottley

Oklahoma – Lucy Heuschen

One week after you’ve gone, Shakira visits me in the bath – Zelda Cahill-Patten

Pauline sends a text from the recycling centre – Sandra Noel

Rainy nights all over the world – Pat Edwards

Rebel Girl – Rachel Burns

Rocking Around the Clock – Pen Kease

 S.O.S. From The Pink Flamingo – Alan Mansell

Seesaws And Other Rides – Sheila Jacob

Simply the best – Sharon Phillips

Sin City, 1998 – Pen Kease

Single-minded – Alison Manning

Smoke on the water – Tim Ellis

Somewhere in a field in Yorkshire – Gary Ackroyde

Starry night – Jenny Robb

Streaming – Thea Smiley

Sylvia’s Mother – Jeffa Kay

That First Song – Sam Marshall

The Brain Damage song – Jenny Robb

The Cuckoo Song is Heard… – Sheila Jacob

The Three Deaths of the Smiling Boy in the Photograph – Gary Ackroyde

The Three Ravens and the Twa Corbies – Mandy Macdonald

The time of my life – Louise Jones

The World Dissolves (The Best Song Of All Time) – Paul Dovey

Tracks of my years – Kelly Davis

Transported – Wendy Humphries

Trinity – Colin Day

Washday, 1960. – Alan Mansell

We Don’t Talk About Vida’ – Rachel Glass

Both Sides Now – Sue Mackrell

Witchy Woman – Abigail Ottley

Weightless Again – Gary Ackroyde

Woodstock – Gary Ackroyde

You missed your bus, stupid… -- Pen Kease

Thank you to each and every one of you who entered, we appreciate you all. 

 

 

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