A year ago we ran our first Local People – Dialect Pamphlet competition, and it was won with a brilliant collection by Lynn Valentine which has since been critically acclaimed.
Dialect offers a richness and a reality that you often worry could be lost in the ‘homogenisation’ of language and poetry that the media imposes, for anything other than ‘local colour’, but I love the diversity it gives us and it was a total pleasure reading the entries this year.
But there has to be a winner, and I am pleased to announce that this year it is…
JOHN MORRIS
for his collection
“A Black Country Chap’s Life Of Rhyme
We also have two honourable mentions with:
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- Daniel Adey, Highly Commended, and
- Roger Bloor, Highly Commended
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John Morris will see his collection published in 2022.
A big Congratulations to John and thanks to everybody that made this such a fantastic competition.