We’ve opened the flood-gates for the inaugural OxCanalFest’s 2024 poetry competition: ‘The Ways of Water’! Bring us your watery poems, your free-flowing verses, your stormy stanzas, your tranquil tercets. Boaters, walkers, swimmers, canal enthusiasts, dreamers and the observers of the nature of water in all seasons, night or day, these are your stories drawn from the poetic bays of your imagination.

Tell us in your unique way: send your poems to us by 23:59 on Sunday, July 7th 2024.

Rules & Submissions for ‘The Ways of Water’ poetry competition here.