Poetry competition invites rhythm and rhymes of Rochdale
Date published: 17 October 2013
Photo: Ken Rowlatt
‘Feeling Good in Rochdale’ – the competition winning photograph by Ken Rowlatt from Rochdale to pen a poem about
Poets from across the borough are invited to write a poem inspired by one of 18 photographs submitted for a competition to capture the best of the borough as part of Rochdale Ideas & Literature Festival.
The winning poem will receive a £50 cash prize donated by Rochdale Co-operative Members’ Group, which will be presented by Eileen Earnshaw, Secretary of Cooperative Member’s Group, Rochdale.
They poem will also be featured with 17 other selected poems in an exhibition at Gallery One, Touchstones, Rochdale, later this year.
Entrants, aged 16 years and over, need to enter their poems online by Friday 8 November.
Poems can be submitted at:
www.rochdaleliteraturefestival.co.uk/competitions
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