Prize Poem Competition

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 49, 20 June 1930, Page 39

Prize Poem Competition

HE prize of half a guinea this week is awarded to the poem entitled "Treasure," by "Oh, Mack," whose delightful lterary, taste and capacity must appeal to those wlio possess an open sesame to the beauty of the earth’s surface. This week entries have been few in number, ‘though of a fairly good standard, the lull indicating a swing of the pendulum after the avalanche of Miterary matter that reached this office. for the Parody Competition, which proved itself undoubtedly ‘popular. Selected for publication is a love poem by A.N.LC., whose flair for poetic and wistful expression of realised beauty is very marked. x *"Vignette’s" ‘small poem, unsuitable for publication Jast week, fs so appealing, with its sedate and Old World air, that ‘we print it for the deléttation of our readers, "Sweet and Twenty": Your lilting lines of apple-blossoms and Jack and Jill in the moonlight are too innecuous altogether. "Joan of Arc": Bravo! You make a gallant gesture. "Dublin Rose’: Mere mundane chat about an uninteresting incident. Nothing but the truth is all very well, but unembellished ‘tis not the stuff of which poems are made, "D’Artagnan"’: A lay of blood and sand and the | brave days of bullfights, which falls as flat as the toreador. "Florentine": A mist and moonshine madrigal, which lacks coherence. "John o’ Groats" tells us he has music in his soul; but it remains there!