YOUR POETRY CAN HELP HEROES

If you feel passionate about the Help for Heroes campaign here’s your chance to wax poetic - and give our soldiers a boost.

Publishers United Press are running a competition to find the best Help for Heroes poem and Primark are giving £250 in vouchers to the winner. The competition is open to all UK residents and your poem can be any length. Entrants are asked to donate at least a pound a poem and everything will go to Help for Heroes.

“Cheques must be made out to Help for Heroes and you can donate as much as you like and enter as many poems as you like,” said Managing Director of United Press, Peter Quinn, who will judge the competition. “We’re looking for poems related to Help for Heroes. It could be a poem about an individual or it could be a poem with a message. The minimum donation we’re asking for is a pound, but I think people feel so passionate about this subject that many donations will be much more and many people will send several poems.”

Entries are only accepted by post, accompanied by a cheque made out to Help for Heroes. A representative from Help for Heroes will be at the presentation to give the winner their prize, and the winner will have the honour of handing over the donations to Help for Heroes.

The winner will also have their poem published in a general collection of modern poetry and will receive a free copy of the book.

Post your entries to United Press, Admail 3735, London , EC1B 1JB , (telephone 0844 800 9178) by the closing date of November 11th 2011. You do not need an entry form but make sure you put Help For Heroes at the top of your entry.

See http://www.unitedpress.co.uk/ for more details.