New Zealand Poetry Society Te Hunga Tito Ruri o Aotearoa
Archive - 2006 Competition
Results of 2006 International Poetry Competition
Congratulations to the prize winners of the 2006 NZPS International Poetry Competition. You can click on the name of each poem to read it. Please click on the name of the Competition section to read the Judge's report.
Open Section (Judge: Chris Orsman): First - John O'Connor of Christchurch with Mother and Child; second Tom Dowling from Ireland with How Worlds Collapse; third Tim Upperton of Palmerston North with The Starlings.
Junior Open Section (Judge: Anna Jackson): First - Emily Adlam of Diocesan School for Girls, Auckland with Phobia; second Kirsti Whalen of Epson Girls' Grammar with Beside Her Window; third Maria English of Samuel Marsden Collegiate with Falling Short.
Haiku Section (Judge: Cyril Childs): First - John O'Connor of Christchurch with wax-eye; second Jeanette Stace of Wellington with emptying the mousetrap; third John O'Connor with the creak; fourth André Surridge of Hamilton with Christmas dinner; fifth Nola Borrell of Lower Hutt with exhibit.
Junior Haiku Section (Judge:Catherine Mair): First - Sophia Frentz of Tauranga Girls' College with empty house; second Shenan Stanton of St Andrew's College, Christchurch with for a day; third James Pope of Wellington College with dark alley; fourth equal Shenan Stanton with one cover and Alice McIntyre of Ilam School, Christchurch with brick.
Many thanks to our hard-working judges Chris Orsman, Anna Jackson, Cyril Childs, and Catherine Mair for their work. We gratefully acknowledge the Asia:New Zealand Foundation for their ongoing and generous support of the Junior Haiku section.
