N COMPETITION No 285 you were invited to write a poem called-A Coat. Dog hairs and repainting the kitchen attracted some poetic energy, but most competitors chose as their subject the overcoat. Frank Annable’s narrator sank into mud and death on the Western Front: ‘The shell’s percussion brought me here, / no time for fear, just lifted, weightless as a fishing float.
Competition
Oct 19, 2022
2 minutes
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