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  • The Oldie

    TESSA CASTRO

    Oct 20, 2021 2 minutes

    N COMPETITION No 272, you were invited to write a poem called . The subject brought out such weird imaginings in many competitors that ordinary death seemed mundane. Katie Mallett warned against ‘Hemlocks, brollies to close down / All human hopes and dreams’. Fiona Clark and Max Ross conjured up grandmothers’ umbrellas of mystery. For D A Prince, the broken umbrella metaphor was clear: going to Richard Spencer.

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