The Welsh Poetry Competition 20 1 2 o rganisers have announced the winners of the 6 th international competition and the overall winner was Sally Spedding for h er poem She wears green .

The winning poem creates a mood and expresses emotion, it challenges and influences. She wears green: we all wear green. We recycle, save the planet, watch nature documentaries, fill the bird feeder every winter, yet we live in a nation where around 4 million scientific experiments are carried out on live animals annually, less than 3% of the population are vegetarian, and important wildlife habitat and green zones are destroyed with increasing regularity. This poem challenges us all. A prose poem, yes, but above all this is a very well written poem and a worthy winner. said John Evans, competition judge.

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The winners were as follows:

1st Prize She wears green by Sally Spedding

2nd Prize Lambing Language by Glyn Edwards

3rd Prize Austerity by Morgan Rhys Powell

John also choose a nother seventeen poems for the specially commended section with winners from all over Wales and t he UK , as well as from F rance, Michigan , USA and Wellington , New Zealand , which once again highlights the fact that the Welsh Poetry Competition i s a truly international event . All winning poems can be viewed on the competition web site www.welshpoetry.co.uk

The overall standard was once again excellent and weve had poets enter from Ireland, France, Spain, Germany, Greece, Italy, India, Pakistan, Thailand, China, USA , Australia and New Zealand .

Each year we go from strength to strength, last year w e publish ed an anthology of all the winning entries from the previous five years and in 2013 we shall be entering our seventh year! said Dave Lewis, competition organizer.

To get involved with next years competition , buy the anthology or just keep up to date with what we are doing you just need to visit The Welsh Poetry Competition w eb site , join our mailing list , Facebook group or follow us on Twitter .

Competition Web site - www.welshpoetry.co.uk

Competition Judge www.johnevans.org.uk
Organiser Web site www.david-lewis.co.uk