Lucy Vickery

Spectator competition winners: a kiwi fruit for Emily Dickinson

As if a shaggy Egg — could hold / A Galaxy of Green —… [Photo: Portishead1] 
issue 17 April 2021

In Competition No. 3194, inspired by Tony Harrison’s poem ‘A Kumquat for John Keats’, you were invited to write a poem of that title but substituting your choice of poet and a piece of fruit. It was a palmary entry, so I’ve made space for an extra winner. 

Hats off, all round, and £20 each to those printed below.

On Wenlock Edge you stand distraught, Your brow compressed, your features taut,And weep to contemplate the fate Of creatures in a fallen state. 

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