Dr. William Henry Drummond Poetry Contest
Honouring the Memory
of
Dr. William Henry Drummond
March 28 2011
Cash prizes totalling $1000 for poems in English.
Continuing the Drummond Poetry tradition in 2007, the Cobalt Public Library held a centenary Drummond Day Commemoration in memory of the 100th anniversary of Dr Drummond's death in 1907.
Dr. William Henry Drummond (1854–1907) was "Canada's First National Poet" as well as doctor and a silver mine owner in the Cobalt area. Included in many anthologies through the years including: The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse (1982).
2010 spring pulse poetry festival
Dr. William Henry Drummond Contest winners
1 st PRIZE $300 Diego Bastianutti Burnaby B. C. Barn Swallows
2 nd PRIZE $200 William Loukides Toronto ON. Bird in Hand
3 rd PRIZE $100 Paige Thompson Calgary AB. Old Magic
HONOURABLE MENTION $50 Brenda Johnson Calgary AB. This Hand I Knew
HONOURABLE MENTION $50 Jody Bigelow Cobalt ON . Past-Future
HONOURABLE MENTION $50 Peter Austin Toronto ON. Love-Letters
HONOURABLE MENTION $50 William Knoof Thorne ON. Skeletons
HONOURABLE MENTION $50 Annie Wenger-Nabigon Sudbury ON . Immigrant
HONOURABLE MENTION $50 Dorothy Stott Gibsons B. C. Shadows
HONOURABLE MENTION $50 Mark Mancini Sudbury ON. The Sonnet of the Sax's Ways
HONOURABLE MENTION $50 Ruth Latta Ottawa ON. Northern Diaspora