Win your poem in print (From Stroud News and Journal)

Win your poem in print

THE Stroud valleys are full of poets. Not only is Stroud home to the famous Stroud Football Poets but there have also been numerous successful poetry slams held in the area over the years.

Nationally famous poets A E Fanshaw and Jenny Jones live in the Five Valleys and hardly a day passes without poems arriving on the newsdesk at the Stroud News & Journal, sent in by poetic readers.

To mark National Poetry Day on Thursday, October 4 the Stroud News & Journal is holding a poetry competition.

The winner will receive a copy of the New Penguin Book of Verse, worth 20, generously donated by Stroud Bookshop and the top three poems judged by our panel of practising Stroud poets will each be published in the SNJ on October 3.

The theme for National Poetry Day is Journeys. The SNJ is inviting local poets to write a poem on this theme in not more than 300 words.

Entries must be submitted - to Poetry Competition, Stroud News & Journal, 6 Lansdown, Stroud GL5 1BE - by no later than Thursday, September 27. Good luck.

*In the lead up to National Poetry Day, Stroud's own Adam Horovitz, one of the leading lights in the town's poetry slams, will be appearing in a Jazz Poetry Superjam at the 100 Club in Oxford Street, London on October 2 in company with Beryl Bainbridge, Claire Calman and his father Michael Horovitz.