OUR WINNING POEM

Olivia Christy Manson’s beautiful , cleverly written Shakespearean-style poem is our winner this month. She likens her lockdown self, deprived of the world outside her home and all it promises, to Juliet – deprived of her one true love, Romeo. She says, “The poem was written during lockdown, a comparison drawn between Romeo and Juliet, and my own quarantine experience. Desperate to escape, to strike out on my own but at what cost? Aware of the charmed circumstance of my four walls – situated on the beachfront – but frustrated with the constraints.”

For details on how to enter the MiNDFOOD Poetry Competition, go to page 127.