Ka mau te wehi! Congratulations to our finalists for the competition!
We are delighted to announce our National Poetry Day events have been rescheduled for Thursday 5th November. The junior prizegiving will be held from 5pm, with the teens and adults competition prizes being presented at the Ten Perspectives poetry event later that evening.
Meanwhile, we can advise the finalists, as follows. We will reserve the public announcement of the place-winners for 5th November.
Finalists (nb the order of the following is arbitrary and does not reflect placement):
Aidan Forbes - "The Invisible"
Angus Brown - "Mountain Pass"
Aria Church - "Bees"
Charlotte Drewett - "A Poem to be Yelled"
Findlay Buchanan - "Papatowai"
Hannah Earl - "Skin Deep"
Hannah Earl - "Race Horse"
Holly Coutts - "The Moon"
Jenny Scott - "It's Not Black or White"
Jilly O'Brien - "mother dancer wife spy"
Jim George - "Wail Minutes"
Kayla - "Our Classroom"
Laura Canton - "An Ode to Dido"
Luke Scott - "Papatūānuku"
Missy Lee Lodge - "I Am"
Oshadha Perera - "100°c tears"
Robyn Maree Pickens - "The Art of Losing"