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Online Poetry Competition 2008

Every month we hold The Top 5 Poems of the Month competition.

The writer of the best poem wins a web page of their own in our Featured Poets section, to showcase some more of their work.

To submit a poem to the Online Poetry Competition, email inbox@forwardpress.co.uk (Enter Top 5 Poems of the Month in the subject line, including your name and postal address)

Or post your poems to Top 5 Poems of the Month, Forward Press Ltd, Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive, Peterborough PE2 9JX (Write your name and address on each piece of work you send)

The Top 5 Poems of the Month - September 2008

We Stayed - Alex Townsend

Bridges over troubled waters - Gaye Looker

The Defeated Nation- Bernice Fogg

Farewell - Amanda Hyatt

Attraction - Claire Flynn

The Top 5 Poems of the Month - August 2008

Checkmate in 5 moves - Steve Ward

A Magazine Ate My Brain - Rob Barratt

Unknown Title - Trish Campbell

My Choice - Rosemary Martin

Grandad - Amy Murphy

The Top 5 Poems of the Month - July 2008

And now they've got wings - Hollie Hinett

My Diet - Donna Parkinson

The Chill Inside- Emma Mumford

Poem to God- Chris Rye

The Old Snowball Effect - Kevin Raymond

The Top 5 Poems of the Month - June 2008

Cloak - Susan Jarvis

Silence - Leigh Sharpe

Today - Melanie Ann Calvert

The Outsider  - Mark Wardle

Zenith - Robbie Masters

The Top 5 Poems of the Month - May 2008

Love of the Forecourt - Simon Sanders

Discrimination - Annabelle Tipper

Lonely Girl - Sophie Warnes

Come to bed Eyes  - Shane Telford

All because of you - Christopher Thomas

The Top 5 Poems of the Month - April 2008

The Hooded Man - Callum Lee Krzysik

A Soldiers Sigh - Sian Evans

PRISONER No. 5239 OAP - Joyce Langlands

The Outcast  - Marisa Victor

The Money Matter - Manik Dhingra

The Top 5 Poems of the Month - March 2008

The Course of Life in the City Paranoia - Domenico Barra

One Bottle, One Tear, One Trigger - Daisy Wells

Flirting - Lauren Green

''The Day I almost Died'' - Brian Markey

Journey in the Pizza Palace - Stephanie Spiers

The Top 5 Poems of the Month - February 2008

Emotional Seasons - Dominic Davies

Happy Valentines Day - Tanja Cilia

Juppiter Optimus Maximus Soter - Greg Smith

H2N2O4Li+ - Shelly Hobson

Merry Go Round - Mary Charman - Smith

The Top 5 Poems of the Month - January 2008

Shipwrecked - Michael Bryant

This Spirit - David Whitney

Small Life - Stephen Hughes

Next Week I Will Go to Barentu - John Foster

Poppies - Charlotte Caulkin

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The Top 5 Poems of the Month Competition is judged by our imprint editors, and all entries that are not used will be considered for publication in new Forward Press anthologies.