Lucy Vickery

Spectator competitions winners: ‘O, my love is like…’

A statue of poet Robert Burns on a bench in Aberfeldy, Perthshire [Iain Masterton / Alamy Stock Photo] 
issue 19 February 2022

In Competition No. 3236, you were invited to submit a poem that begins ‘Oh my love is like…’ .

From the funny and sweet to the waspish and jaundiced, the entry ranged pleasingly far and wide; as the poet Patrick Kavanagh wrote in his sonnet ‘The Hospital’ (‘A year ago I fell in love with the functional ward/ Of a chest hospital…), ‘But nothing whatever is by love debarred…’

Commendations go to Nicholas Hodgson, Adrian Fry, Mary McLean and Richard Spencer.

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