{"id":1714,"date":"2018-03-08T13:24:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T13:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2018-03-08T13:24:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T13:24:24","slug":"2018-canterbury-festival-poet-of-the-year-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2018\/03\/08\/2018-canterbury-festival-poet-of-the-year-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">From romance to rhetoric and from sonnets to satire: The Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year Competition is now open for entries.\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1715\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1715\" style=\"width: 940px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2018\/03\/poetwinner_940x627.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1715 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2018\/03\/poetwinner_940x627.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2018\/03\/poetwinner_940x627.jpg 940w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2018\/03\/poetwinner_940x627-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2018\/03\/poetwinner_940x627-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1715\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2017 competition winner, Steve Xerri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the 12<sup>th<\/sup> year of the Competition which has grown into an internationally respected event and forms a major part of the Festival year.\u00a0 \u00a0In 2016 there were a total of 391 entries from all over the world and in 2017 there we received 311.<\/p>\n<p>Each year around 35 poems are longlisted from the entries received and these are published in an anthology; copies are available from the Festival Office.\u00a0 A shortlist of poems is then selected and from these the winners are chosen.<\/p>\n<p>The Competition is generously sponsored by the School of English who donate the <em>University of Kent Prize<\/em> of \u00a3200 for the winner, \u00a3100 for second and \u00a350 for third places, \u00a325 for the People\u2019s Choice and the Best-Read Poem receives a bottle of sparkling wine courtesy of the Wine Room, Tankerton.<\/p>\n<p>So, send in your poems of all types, long, short, tragic, funny, whatever you are moved to write; you may find yourself crowned the Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year 2018 at our Awards Evening on 4 October in the Gulbenkian Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>The Competition deadline is <strong>Monday 18 June 2018<\/strong>.\u00a0 The fee for entry is <strong>\u00a35 per poem<\/strong> and please don\u2019t forget to <strong>attach an entry form <\/strong>which can be downloaded from the Festival website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canterburyfestival.co.uk\">www.canterburyfestival.co.uk<\/a> along with the Terms and Conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For further information contact Tina at the Festival Office 01227 452853.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From romance to rhetoric and from sonnets to satire: The Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year Competition is now open for entries. This is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2018\/03\/08\/2018-canterbury-festival-poet-of-the-year-competition\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[143219,178181],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1721,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}