N COMPETITION No 280 you were invited to write a poem called . My cue was a 19th-century Norwegian painting I’d seen of a woman cutting bread. You widened it to cutting hair and grass, being cut down to size and cutting people dead in the street. Philip Machin praised the railway cutting: ‘Brunel knew well the weeks of toil, going to Con Connell’s cut-down villanelle.
TESSA CASTRO
Jun 01, 2022
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