Micropoem at Manchester Review

Posted on July 19, 2014April 22, 2020 by Josephine Corcoran

How lovely to find out on Thursday afternoon that my tweet-sized poem ‘Picnic’ has come 2nd in #micropoem14, a Twitter poetry competition run by the Centre for New Writing, and the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, at the University of Manchester.

To take part in this year’s competition, judged by John McAuliffe, Janet Rogerson and Eleanor Ward, entrants had to tweet a poem on the theme of ‘English Summer’ (using the #micropoem14 hashtag) during the week 7th July until 5pm on Monday 14th July.

'Picnic' When it rains we wear our tartan rugs like capes shake crumbs of DNA in fields while workers take the queen our jam #micropoem14

— Josephine Corcoran (@And_OtherPoems) July 14, 2014

So I’m delighted to be among the winners (I think I’ve won a signed copy of a Jeanette Winterson book) and to be published on the excellent online arts journal The Manchester Review, along with the other winning poems.

14 thoughts on “Micropoem at Manchester Review”

helenmackinven July 19, 20141:55 pm

The recording made me smile. Love the fact that you take your writing seriously but not yourself 🙂 x

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1. Josephine Corcoran July 19, 20141:58 pm
  
  🙂 x
  
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Heather Walker (@Heather91404743) July 19, 20143:09 pm

Your recording made me laugh so much! Congratulations.

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1. Josephine Corcoran July 19, 20143:12 pm
  
  Thanks, Heather! 😀
  
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Hilaire July 20, 201412:04 pm

Congratulations! Love the poem, and your reading – lovely to hear your voice and especially your laughter!

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1. Josephine Corcoran July 20, 20144:36 pm
  
  Thanks! I’d like to record more poems but I might switch to Vimeo to avoid the ads. I’ll try to prepare more next time. 🙂
  
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English Summer Micropoem14 | thereselawlorwright July 20, 20149:11 pm

[…] the other poems and making contact with the poets. Josephine Corcoran put together this hilarious recording of her micropoem – as in ‘how not to record a poem’. It really shows that there is no substitute for […]

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Robin Houghton July 21, 20147:28 am

Ha ha ha! It’s not easy, is it? Congratulations on another fine result – you’re on a roll! R x

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1. Josephine Corcoran July 21, 20147:41 am
  
  Thanks, Robin 🙂 x
  
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Fiddledock July 29, 20148:48 am

I played this to my kids
One in particular has just spoken in public for the first time
They like you
🙂 and that adults giggle too.

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1. Josephine Corcoran July 29, 20149:08 am
  
  I bet they did a better job than me! 🙂
  
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freyajmorris July 31, 20144:21 pm

Loved the poem! (Am without sound at work so didn’t get to hear you read it). A well deserved win!

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1. Josephine Corcoran July 31, 20144:40 pm
  
  Oh, thanks so much, Freya! You are probably best without sound for this one! :-O x
  
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