Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Swift Satire Winner Online


The text of the winning entry in the 2009 Swift Satire Competition has been added to the Boyne Writers Group page here.

The winner, David Rowell, from Churchtown, Dublin was a prize-winner in the Goldsmith Festival Poetry Competition (2009), the Amergin Poetry Competition (2007), the Golden Pen Poetry Competition (2007) and the Francis Ledwidge Poetry Competition (2006). He has been published in Poetry Ireland Review (2007) and Crannog Magazine (2007). He was chosen by Poetry Ireland to read in their ‘Introductions’ series (2009). He has broadcast pieces on RTE Lyric FM’s ‘Lyric Notes’ and RTE’s ‘Sunday Miscellany’.

He attended the Swift Cabaret on Sunday night last and read his winning entry Tiger Missing– Reward for Recovery which was very well received by the audience. Congratulations David and thanks to all who entered.

1 comment:

Peter Goulding said...

Very allegorical. A worthy winner.