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An open field

Prizes: £100 and £50 Entry fee: £7.50/£6 subscribers Closing date: 15 March See p76 for details

Nearly two hundred years ago Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote that poetry was made up of the best words in the best order. Times and styles may have changed, but that requirement has not. The winner of the Open Poetry Competition may be on any subject and in any form, but it will most certainly be made up of the best words in the best order.

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