Cyclamens and Swords 2009
Poetry Contest Results!

  

We are pleased to announce the results of the second annual Cyclamens and Swords Poetry
Contest.  All poems were judged anonymously by three judges:

  

First prize of $300 and publication: 
Donna Langevin - 'The best way to eat a snowflake'  - read this poem

  

Second prize of $100 and publication: 
Roberta Tracy - 'Scimitar wind'  - read this poem

  

Third prize of $50 and publication: 
Stan White - 'Heart'   - read this poem

  

Six highly commended awards: - read these poems

Ellen S. Jaffe - Swan lake

Carol Frith - Walking near the wharf

Esther Lixenberg Bloch - Building a rock garden

Esther Lixenberg Bloch - Jerusalem circuit

Ellaraine Lockie - Sexed on a Kona balcony

Mediha F. Saliba - Unfinished love poem  

  

Three commended awards: - read these poems

Breindel Lieba Kasher - I and thou

Ellen S. Jaffe - Her story

Rochelle Mass - My daughter has brought me her baby to love

  

Shortlisted: 
Yossi Faybish  Cage, Dog blues, Nature bride; Yaqoob Ghaznavi  Don Quixote, Schizophrenia; Vyatcheslav Bart  Could it be only me, That things may hurt, There will be days; Susan Rosenberg  Soliloquy; Stan White  Sunday afternoons; Sonja Smolec  Garden of love my oasis; Sara Avital  Memory tailor,  Mike’s Place Tel Aviv – Five Years after; Ruth Sabath Rosenthal  I ate my mother’s hair, Mother’s wishbones no doubt; Roni Kadish  Guitar boy; Roger Bell  Far from Metaphor the poets are doing dishes, Man and Woman; Rochelle Mass  Another lost Saturday, No apology; Roberta Tracy  Powell Street Station December; Ricky Rapoport Friesem  Mama-gram, Mystery, Siren, Tateh’s Fedora; Pauline Le Bel  Tulips; Norma Bursack  Wedding cake on a highway; Nathalie Freson  Dead Sea; Mediha F. Saliba  Understanding, Mobile; Margaret Patricia Eaton  Pencils; Margaret Mace  A daughter’s silent world; Lilian Cohen  Essence of tomato, Garage sale, I; Jennifer Jinks Hoffman  Safari redemption; Iris Dan  The Feldenkreis lesson; Esther Lixenberg Bloch - Haiku Night to Day, Notes unimpeded, On the relationship of dressmaking to sculpture, Two landscapes; Ellen Jaffe  Ruby slippers; Ellaraine Lockie  Translation of a face lift; Donna Langevin - My address book, Today people are snowing on Cabbagetown, Blue; David George  Akape; Carol Frith - Birch trees, Black roses, Carnival, Obsession

A chapbook containing the winning poems and the honorable mentions will be published and presented to the winners in addition to their cash prize.  Additional copies of the chapbook will be available from our Bookshop.