The Ring of Words

Here are the winners and runners up from the 1998 Arvon International Poetry Competition. The poems show the variety of form and subject from around the world. From sonnets to blank verse, from where the world finds itself 80 years after the end of WW I, to apocalyptic moments and evocative pen portraits of loved ones, or loving descriptions of patchwork England, this tantalizing and pleasurable collection of verse demonstrates just how lively poetry is at the end of the millenium.