Bozarts' Worlds End Poetry Competition

Bozarts’ 2024 Worlds End poetry competition invites poets and writers to create new climate change-based texts to one of two well-known melodies.

In 2024 the melodies are EITHER I Vow to Thee My Country (Jupiter theme from Holst’s The Planets) OR Tallis’ Third Mode Melody (theme of Vaughan-Williams’ Tallis Fantasia).

Each email submission should contain ONLY TWO VERSES in writing for the melody chosen.

Each email submission should also contain an INFORMAL AUDIO MADE BY THE WRITER of singing or speaking over the melody in the rhythm of the melody. A self-made audio phone recording of reciting over the music is fine.

Prize-money for each of the two winning 2024 texts is £200.

Decisions on the winning texts will be made by mid-November 2024.

Judges are the Bristol-based poet and augmented sound artist Ralph Hoyte, 2022-2024 Bristol City Poet Kat Lyons and David Adams, Bozarts Artistic Director.

Bozarts will promote the winning texts / pieces to performing groups and organisations – such as choirs and instrumental groups (community, amateur and professional, including the Climate Change Choir movement) – as well as schools, etc.

Please note we cannot consider a poem in the competition until you have bought your submission ticket.