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Balancing Act
and Other Poems
ISBN 978-1-905599-65-3
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‘ripeness is all’ the barman said as he sliced the lemon and looked up with practised seduction at Madeleine, who blushed and turned to examine the eighteen prints of giraffes and gazelles that littered the overdone wall ....
Extract from winning poem ‘ripeness is all’ by Catherine Edmunds.
Predatory swordfish, dancing mannequins and girls who never wash their hair. Balancing Act and Other Poems contains the winning entries from the Leaf Books 2010 Poetry Competition.
Winner:‘ripeness is all’ by Catherine EdmundsRunners-up:‘Surprise’ by Jessamine O’Connor‘Einarsfjord c.1420’ by David UnderdownCommended:‘A Strange Sight’ by Elaine Amos‘Stoleta Voda’ by Chloe Balcomb‘Eryri’ by Sue Benwell‘Balancing Act’ by J V Birch'Walking with Warlords' by Lyn Browne‘queuing for Banksy’ by Liz Crosby‘The Girl Who Didn’t Wash Her Hair’ by Rosemary Dun‘The Way’ by Margaret Eddershaw‘in a snow-bright world’ and ‘his grandmother’s house’ by Catherine Edmunds‘Cuirass’ and ‘Frogspawn’ by Robert Ewing‘Building Dams’ by Richard Gills‘Ithaca’ by Richard W. Halperin‘Sea Horse’ by Susanna Harding‘The Alchemist’s Cat’ by Oz Hardwick‘All the love in the world’ by Ursula Hurley‘24 Hours’ and ‘The Lighthouse at Burnham’ by Mark Lewis‘You Find Them’ by Katie Metcalfe‘Body’ by Abegail Morley‘Living Room’ by Jessamine O’Connor‘Miss Barnes’ and ‘John’s binoculars’ by Shirley Percy‘Sleepless in Vienna’ by Olwen Smith‘McHappiness’ by Peter Wilkin