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The Raymond Wilson Poetry Competition 2010

Wednesday, 09 February 2011

children reading

The 2010 Raymond Wilson Competition to write a poem for children has been won by Jane McCutchan, a PhD student in the Department of Economics, for her poem ‘Water-colours'.

The winning poem was chosen by a panel of judges consisting of a university tutor, a children's poet, and children in a local school.

Highly commended poems were 'Lola' by Kirsti Wilson, Marketing Manager, and ‘School Days' by Tasha Dawson, Senior Academic Services Administrator.

Also highly commended was 'Colours': would the author of this poem please contact the competition organiser, Michael Lockwood as no name was submitted with it.

The judges would like to thank everyone who entered the 2010 competition, the deadline for which was extended until the end of the autumn term. The 2011 competition will be advertised, as usual, at the start of the summer term.

Dr Michael Lockwood, Competition Organiser m.j.lockwood@reading.ac.uk

Water-colours

The rain draws the sky

Down to the earth.

It closes the space

In the children's painting.

 

The teacher painted the sky

Touching the earth,

But the child knows

And leaves a space for running.

 

The sky is a brush full of black paint

And the ground, tentacles of fingers.

The children draw the rain

Like streamers of quick-silver.

 

The rain covers me

In the space full of painting.

Three children run towards me

Through the paint-water evening.

Jane McCutchan

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