FRANCIS THOMPSON, born in PRESTON, wrote THE HOUND OF HEAVEN and a poem, AT LORD’S, remembering the run-stealers that flicker to and fro, and his HORNBY and his BARLOW LONG AGO.
First prize D. Rosendorff, Coogee, NSW, Australia
Runners-up Peter Hampton, Wimborne, Dorset; Margaret Shiels, Edinburgh
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