Sentinel 2012

[marc_chagall]

Delighted to have achieved a 'highly commended' in the Sentinel 2012 poetry competition. This means a cash prize of £25 plus publication in the anthology.

Here's what the adjudicator, Roger Elkin, had to say about my poem:

Later: a disturbing, disturbed poem about an after-life of a man whose wife has left him, or who has died. The uncertainty is important: this poem is uncertain – its structural disjointedness, with irregular stanzas, freely-associative imagery, repetitive patternings and dislocated events is mimetic of the man's troubled mind and life. Every piece of the detail, though economically and visually-realized, as it attempts to depict a mind coming to terms with its own disorientation and the littlest bits of meaning left in life, is in itself disorientating.

[desertwomble]

Shouldn't that be 'a disturbing, disturbed poet....'?

But seriously, well done Cathy. Great result!

DW

[marc_chagall]

Thanks Paul