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Old Maps and Books<\/em> by<\/font> Don Nixon<\/strong> (England) These poems will appear in Five Words vol VII, to be launched at \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al on Monday the 14th of April 2014, along with an award presentation and readings from available contributors.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Five Words Poetry Competition Winner Announced Our congratulations go to Don Nixon, winner of this inaugural five words competition for his poem, Fado in a Lisbon Bar. And congratulations to all the shortlisted entrants, and for highly commended contributions from Afric McGlinchey and Janet Lees. Shortlist Old Maps and Books by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-events-and-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFado in a Lisbon Bar<\/em> by<\/font> Don Nixon<\/strong> (England) winner<\/strong><\/font>
\nGipsy Girl<\/em> by<\/font> Eithne Reynolds<\/strong> (Ireland)
\nThe Magician\u2019s Hat<\/em> by<\/font> Linda Mills<\/strong> (USA)
\nMatin\u00e9e Idol<\/em> by<\/font> Richard Hawtree<\/strong> (Ireland)
\nPostcard<\/em> by<\/font> Joy Howard<\/strong> (England)
\nA boy of six thousand parts<\/em> by<\/font> Janet Lees<\/strong> (England) highly commended<\/strong><\/font>
\nPalimpsest<\/em> by<\/font> Janet Lees<\/strong> (England)
\nFrozen moment<\/em> by<\/font> Afric McGlinchey<\/strong> (Ireland) highly commended<\/strong><\/font>
\nLife on Mars<\/em> by<\/font> Colm Scully<\/strong> (Ireland)
\nThe Choice<\/em> by<\/font> Tom Dredge<\/strong> (Ireland)
\nAt the Banquet<\/em> by<\/font> M\u00e1ire Wren<\/strong> (Ireland)<\/p>\n