There were only ever two choices from this narrow field. The only difficulty is in placing them first/second.
1) Winter Sparrows. While it could use a little work (some cuts even) it is the more honest, straightforward, self-contained, and (to use Wendy's criterion) complete of the two. Love to know who did this one - don't recognise the voice at all.
2) Salting Fields. Probably technically the best poem, and ambitiously sophisticated for something so short (and someone so young). In the end not so complete, though, because it (thinks it) relies on so much mythological backdrop (unnecessarily in my view). Let go of that and this guy is going to write some stuff which will surprise us all, I think.
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