I was very pleased to learn the other day that a poem I’d written and then subsequently entered in a competition had been shortlisted out of something like 500 entries.
Of course, the rules forbid further edits once the submit button has been pressed, but this didn’t prevent me working on it afterwards and a slightly different version now exists. The original poem didn’t win (the actual winner, John Baylis’s entry “Track”, was brilliant and thoroughly deserved to scoop the prize) but I’ve decided to share the updated version later under an adapted title just to tie things off in my mind.
JH 🙂
Jonathan Humble 