Other events include Europe's biggest brass band festival and a re-enactment of the Battle of Bannockburn.
The writers were asked to explore the significance of the Bannockburn battlefield to people today.
The poetry competition was part of the Battle of Bannockburn project to transform the monument to the site.
The Bannockburn Heritage Centre is to close its doors for the last time almost 50 years after it opened.
Now Stirling University historian Dr Fiona Watson believes she has found the location - between Whins of Milton and Bannockburn itself.
The band has been renamed as the Bannockburn and District Pipe Band.
The restoration of a weather-beaten statue of Robert the Bruce has begun ahead of the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn in 2014.
And now many in Central Otago seem to want to draw similar types of boundaries between areas such as Bendigo, Bannockburn, Gibbston Valley, Cromwell and others.
Bannockburn is next in line, for the battle's 700th anniversary.
Hard by this slogan are more icons of Scottish nationalism, such as the Monymusk Reliquary, a casket which was carried into battle against the English at Bannockburn by Robert the Bruce.
Because Barbour, Burns and Scott had all written about Bannockburn, and had all done so with a four beat line, I decided my piece would be in tetrameter too, as a homage.
The judges, including the Scots Makar Liz Lochhead, and experts on Bannockburn and the Rotunda monument, spent several hours deliberating on the poems, and ultimately came to the same conclusion as the public in choosing Jamie's poem.
As well as a new visitor centre, the Battle of Bannockburn project will see remedial works to the existing historic monuments, including the rotunda, flagpole and Bruce statue, all of which will be restored to their former glory.
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