He also presents Tight Lines for Sky Sports and writes columns for Angling Times, the leading angling weekly, and Total Coarse Fishing and Match Fishing magazines.
Fisherman’s Blues had been on for two years when Keith came up with a comment in rhyme. Listeners called in and asked for more, and since then Keith has obliged with all kinds of verse about the countryside, water and the creatures in it, the weather, and anglers and their experiences. Now Donald Judd writes a regular poem for the Sunday show, but Saturdays and Bank Holidays are the domain of ‘piscatorial’ poets – which is where Magma comes in.
The subject, ‘fishing’, can be interpreted as you please – not necessarily in terms of a fish, a rod and a hook!
Entries will be judged by Keith Arthur and representatives of Magma. The first prize is a luxury two night stay for the winner and guest at The Compleat Angler at Marlow with (for a winner interested in fishing), a day’s angling at Marlow with Keith Arthur. Runners up and their guest will be invited to a meal at the famous Riverside Restaurant at The Compleat Angler. The winning poems will also be published in Magma 37 and broadcast, with other entries, on Fisherman’s Blues. The prizes will be presented by Keith Arthur at the Magma 37 launch reading at the Troubadour, Earls Court, in March when the winners and runners-up are invited to read their poems.
Send your entry to keitharthur@magmapoetry.com – with poems in the e-mail itself – no attachments please!
Alternatively please post your entry to:
Keith Arthur Magma Poetry Competition
150 Hammersmith Road
London W6 7JP
The closing date is 6th January 2007.
Competition rules: Entry to the competition is free. Original unpublished poems up to 40 lines long. Entrants can submit up to 3 poems. Poems will not be returned. Copyright remains with the poet, but entry gives permission for the poem to be broadcast on TalkSPORT and published in Magma. Members of the Magma Committee and employees of TalkSPORT and their families are ineligible.
