The results of the Bare Hands Poetry and Photography Competition have just been announced here. The prize of having postcards printed showing the two winning poems and photographs, which would then be made available for free at a whole bunch of international independent bookshops, was ingenious and at the same time reassuringly old school for those us who so far eschew kindle and enjoy the feel of paper and card in our bare hands.
The bad news is I didn’t win, but the good news is that my poem Broken Love was Highly Commended along with poems from good friends and class acts Colm Keegan and Kate Dempsey. You can read them and the winners at your leisure here and enjoy the photos too.
Bare Hands Issue 6 is out now also and you can read it and all the back issues here. If you want to submit have a look here. Again, this is another example of a new writing endeavour going from strength to strength in terms of the quality of the work and the imagination of the editors. Congratulations to all.
Well done Brian- I loved your poem, as I did Kate’s and Colm’s. I may be biased, but I preferred them to the winning entries. Lovely idea though:)
Thanks Louise – it was certainly a competition with a difference! Great to be up there with Kate and Colm also!