03.02.2018
This book of poems is a compilation of the winning and shortlisted poems from the 2015 Poetic Republic Poetry Competition. Sadly, the creator, of the competition, Peter Hartey, passed away before having announced the winners.
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As friends of Peter, we had been following the progress of his competitions (he ran a Short Story Prize as well) since their inception and felt it was important to complete the 2015 competitions.
The Poetic Republic Poetry Competition is a unique one. Peter described it as a ‘quest to discover the poetry that we want to read and talk about’.
Peter devised the competition with the belief that great poetry can be discerned through a process of democratic selection in which all participants play an integral part. Peter referred to this process in terms of a ‘community’ of individuals sharing their poems and feeding back on the poems of others through ‘anonymous peer review’.