‘Impressive, ingenious and affecting’ poem about missing an absent son wins National Poetry Competition | Books
Inspired by the writer's experience of missing out on his son after his son moved from the UK to Australia, the poem won this year's £5,000 national poetry competition. Fiona Larkin's poem “Absence” has grammar and was chosen from almost 22,000 entries. “The odds are so high that it feels like a lottery win,” Larkin […]