Liverpool poetry group the Liver Bards is looking for poems about the city for its free-to-enter poetry competition and publication in an anthology.

The Liver Bards, who meet at the Ship and Mitre pub in Dale Street, want poems of up to 30 lines in length for the competition, which offers cash prizes to the winning poet and runner-up, plus free subscriptions to poetry magazines and publication in an anthology of the best poems submitted.

You can phone Liver Bards’ organiser Dave Costello (winner of the 2011 Welsh National Poetry competition) on 07747 632922 for more information, or email mailfordjc@gmail.com, or phone Liver Bards’ co-host Steve Regan on 07764 615069 sregan09@gmail.com