World Book Night Haiku Competition 2017
Information Services celebrated World Book Day/Night on the 2nd of March and 23rd April in the Hugh Owen, Thomas Parry and the Physical Sciences Libraries with a successful haiku competition. Entrants were treated to free cake at our stalls, and the haikus were judged by IS staff members Simon French and Nia Elis.
For more information on World Book Night, visit: http://www.worldbooknight.org/
And the winners are...
Thank you very much to all who took part in our World Book Day/Night celebrations this year. We received over forty entries, and were delighted by the quality, inventiveness, and humour displayed. The winners of the competition, each receiving a set of books are as follows:
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Bûm fyd hudolus Lle canir hen freuddwydion Ar aden eryr (Catherine Jones) |
Cadelight flickers Pages hold hidden secrets The world in a word (Caitlin Naylor) |
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Mae’r geiriau glas Wedi colli enwau nhw Yn yr eira oer (Neal Alexander) |
Dropping yellow dust Six glass jugs of daffodils Line the blue counter (Catherine Jones) |
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Rhy gyflym yw’r byd Gan golli ein breuddwydion Collwn ni ein hedd (Catherine Jones) |
Golden sun streams in Between stacked shelves of wisdom Illuminating (Katy Peat) |
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Le jour de Saint George Ne tuez pas de dragons S’il vous plaît. O.K? (Lloyd Roderick) |
Thanks to everyone who submitted haiku (each will receive a book) - all entries listed below:
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White teeth, Zadie Smith Religion versus science Well worth reading now |
Books, Paper, that smell Adventure, Day dreams, Knowledge Imagination |
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Think about learning Quietly in peaceful space Knowledge all around |
The egg- yolk sun shines Leaking light on our musty Pages of knowledge |
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Trees metamorphose Bringing new life to new worlds Books are fu**ing rad |
Jade is such a babe Wow her hair is so curly Ugh, I'm so jelly |
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Cerulean face: Indescribeable sorrow Life has left him:cold |
Life is for living Books are for life Promote reading books |
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Long are standard loans Short loan leads to massive fine Avoid the short loan |
My mate Adam was Born on April twenty third So was Shake Spea Ur |
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I was magical Where the old dreams were once sung On the eagles wing |
I know u don't care for the things that I do But I still wrote this cheeky Little haiku for you ;) |
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Substitute teacher Accept my condolences We are all buffoons |
Ruby likes reading Books are Good for some researching Reading makes you smart |
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Aberystwyth a small town By the sea with life in the hills and trees No place I'd rather be |
The library is OPEN Too many books to choose from Whole world is one place |
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Slowly dry pages Fall yellowed from life's short book As brittle time turns |
Screens flicker, eyes twitch yn llyfrgell y gath goch Books watch the hunters |
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Three floors of good books Support the old library More than it's concrete |
I am not dead yet The library will see me off oh! Maybe Today |
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Swift the pages turn Life, love, death and old wisdom All fly home to sleep |
The green Aurora Lighting the cold evening sky But nothing's under |
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I am allergic Daffodils and yellow dust Make me sneeze, archoo! |
Arhoswch i weld Mae amser a chariad yn maddau galar |
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Ar y bwrdd blodau Cofiwn ein hen Dewi Sant Gan gennin pedr |
Cefnogaeth cymraeg Rhag ofn i'r heniaith yn mynd Lludw i'r lludw |
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Screen flicker, eyes twitch Yn llyfrgell y gath goch Books watch the hunters |
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