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Calling all poets! The Independent is teaming up with Camp Bestival for a poetry competition

Calling all poets! The Independent is teaming up with Camp Bestival for a poetry competition

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Fancy yourself a budding Byron or potential Plath in the making? Camp Bestival has announced the launch of a brand new poetry competition in association with The Independent and Rough Trade Books. The Camp Bestival x Poetry Fruit Machine Competition is open to all ages and all the family. With help from special guest judges – poet Ella Frears and The Independent’s own Culture Editor, Jessie Thompson – the competition will invite the best poets to read their works on The Library Stage on Saturday 1 August. With Frears, the winners will also be able to take part in a poetry workshop based on her Poetry Fruit Machine card game, which offers a deck full of prompts to really inspire you. One winner will be selected for the following categories: under tens, under 18s and adults. The three winners will also receive a …