A big thanks to the thousands of readers and others who entered Online's pioneering interactive text message poetry competition. The competition, done in association with our web site, Guardian Unlimited and Consult Hyperion, ended last Friday. Since then our specialist team has been sifting the entries down to 100 to present to our expert panel which meets today (April 19).
The panel - poets U A Fanthorpe and Peter Sansom accompanied by Guardian Unlimited's books editor, Justine Jordan - will winnow them down to the best seven entries.
What next
On Sunday, April 22, every entrant will be sent a text message to remind them that the interactive stage is about to begin.
April 23 to April 29:
Each day every entrant will be texted one of the final seven poems to their phone. They will be asked to give a mark out of 10 for each one (numerals, please) and send it back as soon as possible. Only entrants who have replied to the first entry will be sent subsequent poems.
May 3:
Results and samples from the final 100 entries will be published in Online.
Details:
www.theguardian.com/mobilepoems