{"id":8883,"date":"2018-03-07T17:25:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T17:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/?p=8883"},"modified":"2019-03-03T13:41:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T13:41:48","slug":"5th-five-words-competition-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/5th-five-words-competition-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"5th Five Words Competition Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

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5th Five Words Poetry Competition Winner and Shortlist Announced<\/font><\/b><\/center>
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\nOur hearty congratulations<\/em> to Jill Munro<\/strong>, this year’s Five Words International Poetry Competition<\/font><\/b> winner, for her beautiful poem, Ptarmigan<\/em>. Jill’s poem was published in Five Words Vol XI<\/em>, launched at our 11th anniversary event on April 16th 2018.<\/p>\n

Our warm congratulations also to all of the poets who had shortlisted entries, and for the highly commended entries from Margaret McCarthy<\/strong> and from previous competition winner Derek Sellen<\/strong>. Thanks to everyone who sent in entries, which increased slightly to 293, and our warm thanks to judges Kathy D’Arcy and Rab Urquhart for their hard work in teasing out a very strong shortlist and worthy winner.<\/p>\n

Shortlist<\/strong><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\nPtarmigan <\/em><\/td>\n\n by  <\/font> Jill Munro<\/font><\/strong> (England) winner<\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nAmong Starlings <\/em> <\/td>\n\n by  <\/font> Margaret McCarthy<\/strong> (Ireland) highly commended<\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A Dream of my Dead Grandmother<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nin the Modern Art Museum <\/em> <\/td>\n\n by  <\/font> Derek Sellen<\/strong> (England) highly commended<\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nDisciplining the Modern Satyr <\/em> <\/td>\n\n by  <\/font> Mary-Jane Holmes<\/strong> (England)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nNothing To See<\/em> <\/td>\n\n by  <\/font> Giles Constable <\/strong> (England)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nHow We Are <\/em> <\/td>\n\n by  <\/font> Ted O’Regan<\/strong> (Ireland)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Writing for the \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nOpen-Mic <\/em> <\/td>\n\n by  <\/font> Jim Crickard<\/strong> (Ireland)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nAmber <\/em>  <\/td>\n\n by  <\/font> Ted O’Regan<\/strong> (Ireland)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nReindeer Moss <\/em> <\/td>\n\n by  <\/font> Tamara Miles<\/strong> (U.S.A.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nEvery Sunday Ever <\/em> <\/td>\n\n by  <\/font> Kirsten Irving<\/strong> (England)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nCentenary<\/em> <\/td>\n\n by  <\/font> Ted O’Regan<\/strong> (Ireland)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nMy Mother’s Birthplace<\/em> <\/td>\n\n by  <\/font> Tamara Miles<\/strong> (U.S.A.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Judges: Kathy D’Arcy and Rab Urquhart<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n

The shortlisted and winning poems will appear in Five Words Vol XI<\/i>, to be launched at \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al on Monday the 16th of April 2018, along with the award presentation and readings from contributors. The 6th Five Words International Competition will commence at noon on Tuesday the 17th of April, 2018.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    5th Five Words Poetry Competition Winner and Shortlist Announced   Our hearty congratulations to Jill Munro, this year’s Five Words International Poetry Competition winner, for her beautiful poem, Ptarmigan. Jill’s poem was published in Five Words Vol XI, launched at our 11th anniversary event on April 16th 2018. Our warm congratulations also to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883","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=8883"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11415,"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions\/11415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}