I'm joining the party late today, since I was off to work early and home late. But many thanks to Rhina (who as I recall was deservedly one of the winners in last year's bake-off) for her perceptive comments and critique and to Tim for organizing all this.
I was both surprised and delighted to be included. As I've told Tim elsewhere, I felt like a guy who takes a wrong turn and walks into an exclusive party, but they hand him a glass of champagne anyway!
Rhina, I can't imagine a more knowledgeable, experienced successor to Dick Davis as the judge. Regardless of the format (names or not, published or not), I hope Tim keeps this tradition going. Perhaps next year Tim can persuade one of this year's winners, Alicia, Deborah or Paul, to follow in your and Dick's footsteps.
Michael Cantor made the suggestion above that the authors reopen the threads on their poems. I see no one has done that as yet. I would love to hear what everyone has to say, so I'll go do that now in hopes it will break the ice.
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