The Takahe
Editorial Committee and Takahe Collective are pleased to announce that
the winner of its 2012 Poetry Competition judged by Christchurch poet and creative writing
teacher, Kerrin P. Sharpe is New Plymouth poet Rachel Sawaya for her
poem, The Baobab Tree. Sawaya wins $250 for her poem.
“This is a sustained and mysterious poem,”
Sharpe says of the prize-winner, “which draws you into its mystery. I found
myself being drawn into an African setting, perhaps along with others crowding
round me, to witness the tree’s mysterious influence.”
Rachel Sawaya completed a Masters in
Creative Writing at Victoria
University and won the
Biggs Poetry Prize in 2011. She has been published in magazines such as Sport
and Poetry New Zealand, and has self-published a YA novella under the
pen name Joey Deleen.
2012 Takahe
Poetry Competition’s second-place and winner of $100 goes to Otaki writer,
Karen Butterworth for her poem, family re-union 2 which Sharpe referred
to as “a memorable and clever poem”. Butterworth’s family re-union 2 will
appear in Takahe 78.
The two
Highly Commended prizes, a year’s subscription to the magazine, go to Levin’s
Janet Newman for her poem Hammer and to Wellington poet, Jo Thorpe (Highly-Commended in last
year’s competition also) for her poem The Pool.
The 2012 Takahe
Poetry Competition attracted nearly 400 entries. Kerrin P. Sharpe’s full
judge’s report and Rachel Sawaya’s winning entry can be read in the forthcoming
issue of the magazine, Takahe 77 which will be on sale from mid-December
onwards.
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