Top 20 Cricket Poem

Well, I made the Top 20 list of the inaugural Cricket Poetry Award.

One hundred and six poets submitted a poem for the inaugural Cricket Poetry Award competition, in which twenty were selected to be publicly read by actors on the 1st Oct 2009.

Based on the reading and crowd response, the last four poems were chosen and re-read the following week on the 8th Oct at the Cricket Art Prize opening – SCG, Members Pavilion.

The judges, Adam Gibson and Jessica Halloran mentioned that a great majority of the one hundred and six poems were of a very high standard. As such, they had a very challenging time when reading and re-reading all poems; having to make some very hard decisions in the end to get the field down to twenty for the first public reading; then select the last four for the reading at the Cricket Art Prize opening.