Prize Poem Competition

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 1, 18 July 1930, Page 48

Prize Poem Competition

2 Each week a prize of half a guinea is offered for the best original. poem. Space rates are paid for others published. All work must be original and hitherto unpublished. Responsibility for unreturned MSS. cannot be taken, but where a stamped. envelope is enclosed it will be returned if unused. Address: "The Editor." [THE prize of half a guinea this week is awarded to a new contributor, "Dulce Carman," whose brief, sweet verses, we feel sure, will be admired by many. readers. Of "Eldon’s" several poems we select for commendation the tribute "To a Friend," and admire that belief in the ultimate good which is expressed in "Destiny," for which it: is hope? room may be found for, publication. . "Miree"’: We are glad you find this page interesting. We liked your small poem, which shows undoubted faculty for verse form, though it is not just up to standard. "Armorel’: Too long, too descriptive. Your account of a country walk reads like a horticultural catalogue! tee L.M.’s demure colleen is too good to be true. Remote as the morning star, she proves inspiration of graceful lines. We hope to hear from you again. Nort .J.R.: "Winter" is sound work, though somewhat lengthy. J.R. has an adequate sense of form and an excellent vocabulary. "Nada" sends lines that are a kind of poetic ring-a-rosy, in which Sowerets, apparently infected with "joy germs," begin each small verse with rapturous good morning to the wide world. All very well, but nov quite poetry. a "M. Lynn" sends a lovely fragment that ripples along as musically as the river it deifies. We hope to use the lines. "O’F lynn": Too rough and ready, ‘altogether.