Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest Winners

Winning Poem:

♦ “Tender is the Night” by Terence Young

 Second Prize:

♦ “The Kindness of Port Angeles, 2002” by Deb O’Rourke

Third Prize:

♦ “First knock down” by Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang

♦ “Transmission Tower” by Rob Taylor

♦ “Comrade Birds” by Frances Boyle

Honourable Mentions:

♦ “After the Wake” by Beth Downey

♦ “Letter to Whiskey” by Susan Vernon

♦ “Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy/Broken Heart Syndrome” by Laurie Koensgen

♦ “Shikata ga nai” by Lorin Jane Medley

♦ “In Winter” by Eleanor Sudak

♦ “Prologue to a Bliss State” by Lisa Martin

♦ “The Commons” by Rob Taylor