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Liverpool People's Poet awards

Liverpool has been running a competition to find the best poems celebrating the city’s Capital of Culture year in 2008, with the winner set to be announced this week

Funded by DaDa Disability and Deaf Arts and supported by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Cllr Steve Rotheram, there are two categories: under- and over-18s.

I’ve been reading through the entreis and thought I’d flag them up, as they’re a good mix of the reverential, celebratory and amusing.

The Tao of Street Fighter

This is a quick one about the first of a series of poems done by Ross Sutherland, one of The Mercy People, on Street Fighter characters