Prize Poem Competition

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 34, 4 March 1932, Unnumbered Page

Prize Poem Competition

eee eer \HE prize of half a guinea in the current competition is awarded to D.P.. for the poem entitled "Sky Ways," which, belonging as it does to the romantic rather than intellectual form of expression, appeals in its awareness of beauty. actual and imagined, and finds expression in musical felicity of a high order. Quality of contributions sent in during the past fortnight has been so admirable that it is regretted space limitations permit publication of the prize-winner only, Arresting in freshness and originality is "The Station Homestead" (held for further consideration), in which "Beaumont." a new contributor, captures admiration by virtue of terse and charming simplicity of phraseology conveying vignette of typical New Zealand country. "Daydream" rhymes with a naive and graceful facility "the deep shady dingle. the fern-bordered rill" of our own land. G.F.: This contributor maintains high literary level already established hy former work, and in "A Sonnet," with skilful manipulation of literary form chosen, expresses, like Shelley before him, his "devotion to something afar from the sphere of our sorrow." Y.S.J.’s lines exemplify beauty of rhythm and considerable felicity of metrical form, slightly marred by one or two unexpected grammatical oddities, K.M.N. wanders in wistful country of the emotions, her poem breathing the haunting atmosphere of a benison bestowed. "Love Song of the Lost": Strongly original, instinct with colour and fire. "Ginger": Your very lovely "Nocturne" conveys with true touch a strangely beautiful impressionistic landscape. "Francesca": Too, too untrammellied. "Merely Mary Ann" sends tinkling lines that are pretty and pensive as her pictured prototype. "Marmaduke" means well, and tkere it ends. a