National Poetry Competition
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National Poetry Competition
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The National Poetry Competition is an annual poetry prize established in 1978 in the United Kingdom. It is run by the UK-based Poetry Society and accepts entries from all over the world, with over 10,000 poems being submitted to the competition each year. Winning has been an important milestone in the careers of many well-known poets. Melanie Drane was the first non-British to win, in 2005. Carol Ann Duffy, the UK Poet Laureate from 2009 to 2019, won in 1983 with "Whoever She Was". Looking back,
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Annual British poetry competition
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Poetry_Competition
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2008-07-23T10:40:37Z
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2024-09-14T01:07:04Z
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