by Michael Mackmin | Sep 28, 2012 | Mike Mackmin's Blog
The results of the competition will be published on Monday, October 1st. The winners have already been notified. On the final day of judging Sir Andrew Motion and Mark Cocker made their selections from 100 poems by the poets listed below. Some entrants had more than...
by Michael Mackmin | Apr 28, 2011 | Staff and Guest blogs
I was moved to write this piece after reading a Robert Penn article in this month’s Cycling Plus where he argues that poetic thinking and cycling are incompatible, and quotes Diane Ackerman: “When I go biking… the world is breaking someone else’s heart”. It’s a strong...