{"id":1325,"date":"2019-09-10T21:03:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T06:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2019-09-11T09:10:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T18:10:16","slug":"symmys-awards-for-best-new-palindromes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/symmys-awards-for-best-new-palindromes\/","title":{"rendered":"SymmyS Awards for Best New Palindromes"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a favor to our friends over at The Palindromist Magazine, here are the results of the SymmyS Awards for Outstanding Palindromic Achievement in 2018.<\/p>\n

Recap: Poet and small press publisher Anthony Etherin thoroughly dominated the 8th annual SymmyS Awards, placing in the top three in every category and tieing for the Grand Prize with his palindrome “For Idris Elba:”<\/p>\n

Able sir, did nobody fit recognise it ties in? Go, certify\u2014do Bond, Idris Elba!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Etherin took all three spots in the Long Palindrome category, first and second in Poetry, first place in Word Unit palindromes (like the 3 Musketeers’ slogan, One For All and All For One!), second in Short Palindromes, and third in cartoons (with his partner Clara Daneri; together they run Penteract Press in Shropshire, England).<\/p>\n

The big win is a good appetizer for a big book release party Etherin and Daneri will host on October 4th at The Swan in Cheltenham, England<\/a>. Among the four books to be released is “Reflections,” containing palindromes by Etherin, several other SymmyS winners, and top palindromists around the world.<\/p>\n

Etherin shared his Grand Prize with Peter Sabra, who won the Short Palindrome category with his “Diet Failure:”<\/p>\n

Salad, lo-cal, left a fat fella cold, alas.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Other SymmyS veterans scored as well, including World Palindrome Champion Martin Clear of Australia, runner-up Lori Wike of the United States, and popular author-illustrator Jon Agee. They were joined by newcomer Dylan Smith, who shared his “Origin Story;”<\/p>\n

Am I man-made? Damn! Am I, Ma?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Winners were determined by a panel of celebrity judges, including puzzlemaster Will Shortz, award-winning fiction writer Margaret Malone, rapper\/MC Paul Barman, Wall Street Journal columnist Ben Zimmer, filmmaker Vince Clemente, palindromist Jeff Grant of New Zealand, and Dutch scholar Johan Jeuring.<\/p>\n

2019 SymmyS winners<\/h1>\n

Grand Prize<\/h2>\n
1. (tie) For Idris Elba<\/strong>, Anthony Etherin
\nAble sir, did nobody fit recognise it ties in? Go, certify\u2014do Bond, Idris Elba!<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
1. (tie) Diet failure<\/strong>,\u00a0 Peter Sabra
\nSalad, lo-cal, left a fat fella cold, alas.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
3. The Humanist<\/strong>, Anthony Etherin (word-unit palindrome)
\nCan we suppose man created God?
\nThere is nothing suggesting we are divine.
\nAre we suggesting nothing is there?
\n\u201cGod created man\u201d\u2014suppose we can?<\/div>\n

Short Palindromes<\/h2>\n
1. Diet failure<\/strong>,\u00a0 Peter Sabra
\nSalad, lo-cal, left a fat fella cold, alas.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
2. (tie) How To Draw A Pyramid<\/strong>,\u00a0 Anthony Etherin
\nA zig. Now one zag. Gaze now on Giza!<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
2. (tie) Origin story,<\/strong>\u00a0 Dylan Smith
\nAm I man-made? Damn! Am I, Ma?<\/div>\n

Long Palindromes<\/h2>\n
\n
1.\u00a0 The Failed Cartographer,<\/strong> Anthony Etherin
\nDemand a hill, at solid nadir\u2026. Damn it! One morn I saw I was in Rome, not in Madrid, and I lost all I had named….<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
2. For Idris Elba,<\/strong> Anthony Etherin
\nAble sir, did nobody fit recognise it ties in? Go, certify\u2014do Bond, Idris Elba!<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
3. Pets,<\/strong>\u00a0 Anthony Etherin
\nPets: A sad dog or fat cat. Nine dragons (no garden intact). A frog, odd as a step.<\/div>\n

Palindromic Poetry<\/h2>\n
1.\u00a0 The Cays<\/strong>,\u00a0 Anthony Etherin<\/div>\n
Raft ropes, nets,
\nyou befilth cay isles.
\nSeven old, lone vessels I yacht\u2014
\nlifebuoys tense, port far\u2026.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
2.\u00a0 The Desert<\/strong>, Anthony Etherin<\/div>\n
Moody, burned dust\u2026
\nOh, still aerify!
\nMy ravine defoliated,
\ndim, its mirage bites\u2026.
\nSure no bliss of pools to order,
\nstill its red roots loop fossil bone.
\nRusset, I beg a rim\u2019s timid detail of Eden.
\nI vary my fire: All its hot, sudden ruby doom.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
3.\u00a0 Midwinter,<\/strong>\u00a0 Lori Wike<\/div>\n
Craned dusk,
\nRadar of tilt
\nLight raw,
\nSwarth-gilt
\nLit for a dark
\nSudden arc<\/div>\n

Word Unit Palindromes<\/h2>\n
1. The Humanist,<\/strong> Anthony Etherin
\nCan we suppose man created God?
\nThere is nothing suggesting we are divine.
\nAre we suggesting nothing is there?
\n\u201cGod created man\u201d\u2014suppose we can?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
2. End game,<\/strong> \u00a0 Lori Wike
\nWill his check go through? He is ill. Is he through? Go check his will!<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
3. Preliminary Results of Double Blind Testing of Viagra<\/strong>, Martin Clear
\nTrying too hard, getting found out
\nleft those that wrote reports crying
\nReports wrote that those left out
\nfound getting hard too trying.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

Cartoons<\/strong><\/h2>\n
1.\u00a0 Acid potentials,<\/strong>\u00a0 Jon Agee (featured image, above)<\/div>\n
2.\u00a0 Wet snot or proton stew?\u00a0<\/strong> John Connett<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/div>\n
3.\u00a0 Capybara<\/strong>,\u00a0 Anthony Etherin & Clara Daneri<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/div>\n

Dirty Palindromes (out of competition)<\/h2>\n
Governmental #METOO<\/strong>, \u00a0 Win Emmons
\n#Me Too bosses, inept — relay my alert: PENISES! So boot ’em.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
An Inuit Welcome?<\/strong>\u00a0 Win Emmons
\nSex in an igloo fort, Nina saw as an intro; fool Gina nixes.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Wounded in Action,<\/strong> \u00a0 Peter Sabra
\nSir, bedsores are Vera’s eros debris.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
To the victor….<\/strong>\u00a0 Peter Sabra
\nNo, weepy Melania, grab a bargain ale! *My* pee won!<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Eccentric<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Peter Sabra
\nOdd? I keep *my* gym pee, kiddo.<\/div>\n

Word Squares<\/h2>\n
(not one of the categories but very cool!! This square received one third place vote for the grand prize.)<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
How a caffeined-up dutch soprano was calmed down<\/strong>, John Falcone<\/div>\n
MADE
\nAVID
\nDIVA
\nEDAM<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

(c) 2019 The Palindromist Magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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