In Competition No. 2932 you were invited to submit up to 16 lines of verse that are the fruit of a collaboration between two poets.
This week’s brief was open to interpretation. Some of you submitted centos (poems comprised of lines from existing poems); others imagined a pair of poets co-writing a new work incorporating the styles and/or themes of both and elements of existing poems. Some match-made poets with similar preoccupations; others saw the attraction in opposites.
It was a clever and engaging entry and narrowing it down to just six was a protracted and painful process. The following would have been worthy winners had there only been more space: W.J. Webster, Katie Mallett, David Silverman, Alanna Blake, G.M. Southgate, Martin John, G.M. Davis, Basil Ransome-Davies and Brian Murdoch. Those printed below earn £25 each.
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