BHAC 2019 POETRY FESTIVAL
3-7pm – 24th November 2019
at the
Old Market, 11A Upper Market St, Brighton
.This year’s Brighton & Hove Arts Council’s Poetry Festival at The Old Market proved to be a great success with a sell-out crowd enjoying the raucousness of Hollie McNish, the thoughtful poetry of Cecilia Knapp and strident tones of Usaama Minhas. Mike Parker of Hammer & Tongue fired the event into life with some dazzling dad-dancing before launching into the Slam – a competition between the two main Uni’s in Sussex, which the University of Brighton edged in a tight contest.
The Winners of the BHAC 2019 Poetry Competition, in partnership with the University of Brighton, strode on stage and entertained the audience with their personal, diverse take on life before this year’s competition judge, Dr. Jess Moriarty, announced the outright winner – Jess Butcher with ‘Swipe Right for Mr. Cool.’
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The bar was crammed in the intervals with the audience taking advantage of the food provided by local company Higgidy whilst enjoying talented swing guitarist, Nils Solberg.
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At the end, after Hollie had kept all enraptured, the audience filed out into the evening with smiles on their faces. Fun seemed to be the key word.
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The poetry competition results are listed, and can be individually accessed, below.
First prize – £1000
Swipe right for Mr Cool
by Jess Butcher
View PDF – Swipe Right for Mr Cool
Runner up – £250
First one gone
by Niki Strange
View PDF – 123 – First-one-gone
Second runner up – Work, Write, Live creative writing course (University of Brighton)
East Croydon connection
by Louise Winters
View PDF – 461 East Croydon Connection
Four highly commended prizes – £25
Two years later
by Liz Eastwood
View PDF 467 – Two-Years-Later (2)
Swimming off the nudist beach
by Lucy Cage
View PDF – 270 – Swimming-Off-The-Nudist-Beach-On-The-Hottest-Day-Of-The-Year
Rock chick rant
by Sylvia Daley
View PDF – 088 – Rock Chick Rant
The Rookery
by Veronique Batten
View PDF – 104 – The Rookery
First prize – student competition – £150
Hylas vanishing
by Grace Tower
View PDF – S033 – Hylas-vanishing
Runner up (1)
Krakening
by Paul Ord
View PDF – S028 – Krakening
Runner up (2)
Train writing
by Hazel Rogers
View PDF – S039 – Train writing
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