I followed up the PS link to read about the judges, two of them previously unknown to me, and was intrigued by the following extract about one of Neil Rollinson's pieces:
Underlying all this though, is a quality of loneliness and scariness clear in poems such as Neil Rollinson. (1960 - ), where the hyphen supplied in the index to an anthology is an "intimation of mortality, / a knowing nod to some bleak point in the future".
I don't know the date of his poem and have not seen it, but I had a piece of light verse on the same topic (those brackets with YOB and hyphen) in Antiquarian Book Monthly Review in December 1975, so probably rather earlier than the NR offering.
Last edited by Jerome Betts; 05-13-2012 at 08:58 AM.
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