Write Out Loud's Olympics competition: voting ends tonight
Vorting ends tonight in the competition to find your favourite WOL Olympics poem. We've had a remarkable tally of entries. Let's hope we'ved had a remarkable tally of votes, too! Listed below are the poems. Be sporting - and don’t vote for yourself. The winner will win a priceless piece of Olympic memorabilia. Send your vote for your favourite WOL Olympic poem by email to Graham Sherwood on graham@anagramwords.co.uk
Here are the poems and poets:
A Sporting Heart, Darren Scanlon
Forget About The Trainers and Wear This Sandwich Board Instead, Shadwell Smith
2012 And All that, Richie Muster
The Flaming Torch, Steve Mellor
The Olympic Spirit, Greg Freeman
It’s Not The Flame That Counts … It’s The Fire In Our Hearts, Yvonne Brunton
WOL Olympic Competition, Ted Clarke
Olympics or Globalisation, David Franks
The Queen’s Helicopter Parachute Jump, Hugh
Exercise Without Apparatus, Olive Broderick
It’s *My* Games, Alison Smiles
1st Class Stamp Approval, Hugh
Whinge and Fucking Bleat, John Coopey
Jessica Ennis, The Golden Goddess, Hugh
Keirin For The Old, Paul Maxey
Olympic Motto For Life, Jeffarama!
Ann Foxglove
Tue 14th Aug 2012 17:33
Why on the "Popular Subjects" does it have this WOL comp featured twice - once with 17 entries and once with 28? One seems to be for last month and one for last year?