[Chris O'Carroll]

The NS has published the results of Competition No 4294, the updated poem comp. Although this is the comp that ushered in the rule against posting entries here ahead of time, being a member here does not seem to have been a liability. We took three of the four prizes. Carolyn Thomas-Coxhead wins the Tesco vouchers for her version of the Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Other winners are Peter Goulding (Yeats's He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven), Brian Allgar (Carroll's You Are Old, Father William), and Lydia Shaxberd (Milton's On His Blindness).

Two of Martin Parker's entries got hon menshes (as did one each by George Boyd and Alanna Blake).

Now that the magazine has published, I presume it's OK to share entries here, so I invite all the winners to post their poems or to give me the go-ahead to post them.