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  • The Oldie

    TESSA CASTRO

    Nov 17, 2021 2 minutes

    N COMPETITION No 273, you were invited to write a poem called . Your least-favourite kind of bag was the ‘bag for life’, which did not live up to its name. But Adrian Fry’s narrator embraced life in bags: ‘I keep my life in placky bags:/Bus tickets, clippings from the press, /Old Guernsey pounds, packets of fags, /Scrawled poems: it’s, going to Max Ross.

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