The winning poems in the Marsden Poster Poems competition have been announced. The quest was to find music-related poems to be posted in shops, pubs café and other sites in Marsden in the run-up to the Marsden jazz festival this coming weekend.

The competition, organised by Marsden the Poetry Village, attracted nearly 300 entries. The poems were launched on Thursday 28 September - National Poetry Day – at A Month of Sundaes café in Marsden at 5pm. 

Among the events at the jazz festival from 6-8 October is Write Out Loud's open mic poetry jam, taking place on Sunday morning at 11 at The Railway pub in Marsden. 

 

The winning poems are:

 

Ballad of Nigel Bates by Jonathan Humble

Chuck Berry's Ding-A-Ling by Greg Freeman

"Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" by Linda Goulden

Friday Night by Angie Butler

House of Jazz by John F Keane

Imagining by Lyrical Lexa

Improvising by Carol Falaki

In the groove by Jill Sharp

Jazz at the Griffin by Moira Andrew

jazz café by Lynne Taylor

Jazz Call by John F Keane

Jazz Hands by Moira Andrew

Jazzed Up by Mantz Yorke

Klavierstücke by Wolfgar Miere

Leaky Welly Blues by Jonathan Humble

Marsden Blue Notes by Paul Waring

Marsden's Musical Magic by George Charles Brooke

Orchestral manoeuvres in the garden by Jane C Steele

Retuning Marsden Mechanics Institute by Rob Baylis

The Busker by Tim Taylor

The man who cannot dance by Kristina Diprose

The Marsden Village Guggenband by KJ Walker

The Piano Verses by Rob Walton

When That Trumpet Plays by Tony Noon

Your Tune by Alexandra Parapadakis

Child by Jayan Eric Holmes

Home is Where the Jazz Is by Liz Wells

Picture shows 'Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Garden', by Jane C Steele, in Lily Blossom Florist, Marsden