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All the Way Home
and Other Poems
ISBN 978-1-905599-52-3
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All the Way Home and Other Poems
Slope your mind with my furnishings
High to the floored mass
Of ceiling space so that the world
Is upside-down.
Paint the walls a cheerful jet-black,
Put my portrait up at an angle
Just right for a window
And look out.
Extract from winning poem ‘Grief’ by Elaine Amos.
Brimful with grief-tilted worldviews, kettle-bound cavemen, stick-on nipples and memory-laden anoraks, All the Way Home and Other Poems contains the winning entries from Leaf Books’ 2009 poetry competition.
Winner:
‘Grief’ by Elaine Amos
Runner-up:
‘Alfred Sisley and Eugenie Lescouezec’ by Kate Noakes
Commended:
‘City’ and ‘Fair Elaine on the Factory Floor’ by Oz Hardwick
‘Click’ by Sue Anderson
‘Look for Me’ by Julie Mellor
‘The Homecoming’ and ‘Trading’ by Matthew Lawson
‘Bird’ and ‘Tinder’ by Claire Dyer
‘Black Watch’ and ‘Shocks’ by Rosi Beech
‘All the Way Home’ by Charles Evans
‘The Little Things’ by Sue Moules
‘Rivers Break their Banks’ by Patricia Sumner
‘The Red Fort, Delhi’ by Valerie Morton
‘Portrait of a Summer Afternoon’ by Keith Shaw
‘This Cross’ by John Kay
‘World with no E’ by Jenny Morris
‘Caveman on my Kettle’ by Kezia Green
‘In her House’ by Sharon Black
‘Powerless’ by Will Daunt
‘Turpentine’ by Catherine Edmunds
‘Entry’ by Emma Foote
‘My Daughter takes me for tea …’ by Lynette Craig
‘Choosing a Swimsuit’ and ‘Signing Off’ by Lyn Browne
‘Anorak’ by Liz Cashdan
‘Flashpoint’ by Ann Gibson
‘Supported Housing’ by Simone Mansell Broome
‘Daughters’ by Laurie Porter
‘Dry Dock’ by Collette Power
‘Next-Door Neighbours’ by Wayne Preece
‘Easter Rising’ by Paige Sinkler
‘Thermopylae’ by Philip Taylor
‘Dilys’s Dinner’ by Eloise Williams
‘I never did a marriage’ and ‘I Will Continue to Smooth Down her Frocks’ by Dorothy Fryd
‘Station Street’ by Rhian Williams