Just a note to thank everyone who commented and not least those who gave me some votes. I've always had a complex about sonnet writing, and I did this for a workshop but submitted it before it was discussed there since the deadline was approaching and the wifi connection wasn't always reliable.
I want to say also I thought Scott Miller's take on "Film Noir" was amusing. There is some talent there and I'm looking forward to some more texts in that L.A. vein.
However the sonnet was NOT intended to be in the
film noir genre. The title was a joke, "black film", but that wasn't apparent to everyone, so maybe it should have a title change.
Congratulations to all the winners--well-deserved--I too thought it was a great bake-off and it was cool to see so many new names. Hope you will all stick around and take part in future workshops, discussions and competitions.
Thanks again to Alex for providing the forums, our excellent judges, and all the participants who came, read, commented the ten posted sonnets.
Already looking forward to next year's bash. (No pun intended.
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