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Melopeia – mellifluous Melos and the madness of melons – by MRS K
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Melopeia – mellifluous Melos and the madness of melons – by MRS K

When the Library of Alexandria was burnt down around the year 642 CE, the world lost centuries upon centuries of poetry. While some texts were preserved (those that were copied time and time again as a testament to their beauty and aesthetic sensibility), many others were lost. Surely, this text ought to have fallen victim to the ravages of time…

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How it happens – by Sarah Temporal
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How it happens – by Sarah Temporal

We paint yellow sample colours on the wall

and bam: there’s four patches of potential sun

and no dull white left in the garage to fix it,

and we haven’t said for sure we want to paint

this room—that’s how it happens.

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Divinations – by Gayelene Carbis
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Divinations – by Gayelene Carbis

I had this fall in the street and fell to the ground like flour.
After that I became very frail, as if I was old, unsteady on my feet.
Suddenly I was less vital – as if my normal organs could only function
if I was whole, complete; as if there is something unfinished about …

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please read Pauline – by Lily Woodberry
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please read Pauline – by Lily Woodberry

‍if you lose my father

                           do not panic! he’s on the lawn

        toes turned out nose up  

the nose pokes

                                      indoors at the ten-minute mark

                     crikey you gotta see this

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Spiderweb – by Edie Popper
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Spiderweb – by Edie Popper

 A spider’s moved into my kitchen window, the northern one 

that gets good sun. Eye-sized, single scampering hand: 

daily, working at its weave. If a memory is a moth or mote …

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Cold Water Swimming in Lyme Regis – by Audrey Molloy
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Cold Water Swimming in Lyme Regis – by Audrey Molloy

RUNNER-UP IN THE GWEN HARWOOD POETRY PRIZE 2025

Out again, through the flounce of dulse and tangle,
out again, through the icy bands—

sea fingers clasping calves and thighs,
sea tongues lapping frozen lips.

At twelve degrees the shock can cause your heart
to founder if you enter suddenly;

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