IT GIVES US GREAT PLEASURE TO PUBLISH THE NAMES AND POEMS OF THE WINNERS OF OUR 2020 LOVE in THE TIME OF COVID POETRY COMPETITION:

ADULT CATEGORY

First Prize Anthea Garman for her poem When I get out I will order a repeat supermoon

Joint first prize Pamela Williams for her poem – Isolation

2nd prize – Christine Coates for her poem LOCKDOWN BRIDGE

3rd prize – Adre Marshall for her poem Remembering

Highly Commended Award John Ellis for his poem Cruise Ship

YOUTH CATEGORY

Joint First prize – Zindi Van Zyl for the poem Asblikkinners

Joint first prize – Rozadin Fortuin for the poem The Covid Test

Merit Award for Achumile Ntabeni for the poem Stuck in a shack

Merit Award for Shiba Phiri for the poem Huh! What’s to love in the time of Covid?

MAGDALA AWARDS

The Magdala Awards highlight poetry as a creative practice that awakens the Poet. In the process of writing, poets connect with their true nature, open an inner eye to see what is real, and speak from their deepest ground of belonging. Through the –Magdala Awards we remind ourselves that the journey of maturing as poets is also a beautiful pathway of evolving as human beings. The widest purpose of all is to nurture the traditional role of poets as Wisdom Keepers.

First prize – Seamus Wilson for his poem Sonnet

2nd prize – Gillian Rennie for her poem Ever After

3rd prize – Ghaireyah Fredericks for her poem In Die Tuin

YOUTH MAGDALA PRIZE

Juanita Marks –Bayman for her poem Being Love in the Time of Covid

TEMENOS AWARDS for poems highly commended by our judges:

Mike Kamstra A McGregor poet) for his poem Love in the time of Covid

Risha Lotter for her poem Isolation