N COMPETITION No 279 you were invited to write a poem called . Basil Ransome-Davies portrayed himself as ‘The man who dropped his wine in Marks’, by Bateman. Mike Morrison’s narrator found that the wind had knocked from the shelf ‘A novelty “Souvenir from Alum Bay”, / Late ’70s: glass phial of layered sands’. At the seaside, Max Ross remembered going to Erika Fairhead.
