Blackout Poetry Competition Winner July 2021
Hello!
The response to our very first Blackout Poetry Competition was amazing, thank you so much to everyone who entered a poem! We will be hosting more competitions like this in the future.
It was a tough gig to pic the winner, so tough in fact that we had to throw in some special mentions along with our runners up.
Those special mentions are; Rae White (Instagram / Twitter), Lily Holloway (Twitter) and Pete Goderie (Twitter / Instagram)! All of their entries will be shared on our social media pages.
Third place goes to Alisha Brown! Instagram
Second place is Zoe Barnard! Twitter / Instagram
And the winner is Tiraj Johnson-Garay! You can see his poem directly below this. Find them on Instagram as well.
Image Description and Transcript:
Image description: A digital graphic art piece of a blackout poem featuring colourful images of the Sun, surrounding planets, and two Black fat bodies existing amongst the stars against a black background. One red planet is wrapped with measuring tape. One of the Black femme bodies is casually lying against the Sun in a honey-coloured crop top and cream panties. The other Black femme body is wearing a loose hot pink night gown with cream panties underneath. These bodies have small planets or stars in place of their head. Black text against white boxes are outlined in various colours to read a poem. The poem reads, "A model, the size of planets, happily following the Sun; not drawn to the scale to represent the small. What would a useless scale look like to our Sun? A round Sun bright in the sky, easily seen; enough to be noticed as an important contribution to the picture of the solar system and the journey of knowing what large bodies look like". End description.
