FIRST SHAOLIN WAHNAM POETRY COMPETITION

Charles Chalmers

Sifu Charles Chalmers, Director of Poetry Competition

You can read all the poems submitted for the Competition here

Winners and Poems

Please click on the title or the poet to read the poem

  1. Best Italian Poem in Translation -- Change -- Patrizia Mittiga
  2. Best German Poem in Translation -- Everyday Things -- Martha Maderthaner
  3. Best Japanese Poem in Translation -- Father's Hands -- Miyuki Kuroda
  4. Best Overall Non-English Poem in Translation -- Morning Dew -- Sifu Naoko Yamada

  5. Third Prize -- They Burned Everything -- Davy Noguera
  6. Second Prize -- Change -- Saskia Wood
  7. First Prize -- The Master -- Santiago Criado

The Panel of Judges consists of the following:

  1. Sifu Charles Chalmers -- Chairperson
  2. Sifu Joan Browne
  3. Sifu Mark Blohm
  4. Adam Kryder

The Prizes are as follows:

  1. First Prize -- A complimentary Intensive Course, or a full series of Regional Courses with Grandmaster Wong
  2. Second Prize --Three complimentary Regional Courses with Grandmaster Wong
  3. Third Prize -- Two complimentary Regional Courses with Grandmaster Wong
  4. Best Non-English Poem Prize -- A complimentary Regional Course with Grandmaster Wong
  5. Prizes for Best Non-English Poems -- A Complimentary Regional Course with Grandmaster Wong

LINKS

All the Poems Submitted for the Competition

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