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Ukraine and Other Poems
Poetry Anthology
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Format: Demy
90 Pages
ISBN: 9781905599-38-7
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Ukraine and Other Poems -
there is an old soviet train
running through communities
of communist orchards
and the family planters
remain towns away
bussing each day
to plough and tow
the potato
the seed….
Extract from winning entry ‘Ukraine’ by Julie Bolitho-Lee
Ukraine and Other Poems contains the winning entries from the Leaf Books Spring 2007 Poetry Competition. No fewer that twenty-nine triumphant verses about elderly fruit pickers and disappointing aunts, stolen daffodils and red dresses and every other topic in between nestle within these covers.
The competition was judged by the Leaf Team. Our
thanks to all who entered.
Contents:
Winner:
Ukraine
Julie Bolitho-Lee
Runner-Up:
The Guest
Catherine Chanter
Commended:
'Heart'
Julie Bolitho-Lee
'What Could be Done to Make a Difference?'
Catherine Chanter
'Departure'
Patricia Ward
'Ersatz Fidelis'
Harrison Solow
'Obsession'
Ivy Bannister
'The Colour of Life'
Ivy Bannister
'Portrait of Schoolgirls by Larchwood'
Owen Lowery
'On Taking My Eighty-Year-Old Aunt Back to Ireland'
Pauline Plummer
'My Friend Barry, the Painter and Decorator'
Pauline Plummer
'Red'
Margie Harriott
'Monochrome'
Sharon Hosker
'Home-Cooked'
A. F. Harrold
'This Englishman in Paris'
A. F. Harrold
'The Welfare'
Kate Noakes
'The Washing of Plates'
Simone Mansell Broome
'Snapshots'
Ian Stanley Ward
'Daffodil Trail'
Sarah James
'Flowers on the Saltbush'
Rob Mooney
'Piopet'
Helen Jayne Gunn
'Explorer 242'
Clive Gilson
'Aunt Matilda'
Keith Shaw
'I Made this Box'
John Foggin
'Dumb-Show'
Rosi Beech
'Falmouth'
Rosi Beech
'You Watch Yourself'
Barry Taylor
'BBC'
Wayne Preece
'The Day is White'
Mary Charman-Smith
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