Nine shafts in steely fluency, between the headboard and the wall grey-blue like ice or gunships brute and serious a face between cupped hands and all the saints polite as …
The Negative (commended poem: 2015 competition)
It is true that she does not appear in the photograph. But who, then, was holding the camera? …
Competition 2015: Judge’s Report – Glyn Maxwell
I came to the judging for the Poetry London Competition still somewhat reeling from judging the (unfiltered) National Poetry Competition. Not that I hadn’t found some keepers and gems in …
Everyday Odysseys
Clare Pollard Ovid’s Heroines Bloodaxe £9.95 Kate Tempest Brand New Ancients Picador £9.99 Ovid’s Heroides, written some time between 25 and 16 BCE, was pretty groundbreaking stuff. A series …
The Wolf Man (2nd prize: 2013 Competition)
Of course I believe that The Wolf Man is the best of my horror films – because he is mine. – Lon Chaney Jr. You can’t know how it …
