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    Poems that Don't Win Prizes
    Poems that Don't Win Prizes
    Poems that Don't Win Prizes
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    Poems that Don't Win Prizes

    By Elizabeth Hicklin

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    A collection of poems by the talented and effervescent Elizabeth Hicklin. Stories and ponderings on life, love and everything in between. Poem's that Don't Win Prizes is a collection that will not disappoint.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElizabeth Hicklin
    Release dateOct 30, 2023
    ISBN9780645933925
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      Poems that Don't Win Prizes - Elizabeth Hicklin

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      4 POEMS THAT WIN PRIZES

      6 MY TULIPS

      8 ON WRITING POETRY

      9 EVENSONG

      10 THE BRIDAL SHOWER

      11 PAIN

      12 WARNING

      13 NIGHT NURSE

      14 AUSTRALIA

      15 THE TROUBLE WITH POETS

      16 HEARD ON LEAVING A POETRY CLASS

      17 ON READING THE BOOK ‘FURY’ by KATHERINE HEYMAN

      18 THE QUICK RED BROWN FOX

      20 YOUNG ALF GRATTIDGE - MY FATHER

      22 PLAGUE, MARCH 2020

      24 HOPE IN DIFFICULT TIMES, AUGUST 2020

      25 THE FLOWER STEALER

      26 A POEM FOR TED HUGHES

      28 LOVE IN THE RETIREMENT VILLAGE

      31 FOG

      32 THE PILL

      34 THE DOLLMAKING MAN

      37 PINE NUTS

      38 MORNINGTON MADNESS

      40 THE NATURE OF POETRY

      42 TODAY’S WORLD

      44 OLD LADIES AND THEIR DOGS

      46 ADAPTION ─A SLAM POEM

      48 WAR GAMES

      50 THE KISS

      51 SILENCE

      52 MOTHERS BEACH, MORNINGTON

      53 THE ICE QUEEN

      54 TONI

      56 THE PRIVILEGE OF AGE

      57 ASSISTED

      58 TO LIZZY

      60 FAMILY GATHERING

      POEMS THAT WIN PRIZES

      On reading the winners of the Peter Porter Prize.

      Poems that win prizes

      don’t make sense.

      to me.

      They must have resonated

      with the judges,

      who must

      be on a higher intellectual plain

      than myself.

      I will never be a prize winner,

      I need to make sense,

      at least to myself.

      What is a prize-winning poem anyway?

      The seizing of words

      shot into the air,

      with meaning only

      to the perpetrator.

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