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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ella Creamer

‘Impressive, ingenious and affecting’ poem about missing an absent son wins National Poetry Competition

Fiona Larkin.
‘Like a lottery win’ … Fiona Larkin. Photograph: Sarah Weal

A poem inspired by the writer’s experience missing her son after he moved from the UK to Australia has won this year’s £5,000 National Poetry Competition.

Fiona Larkin’s poem, Absence has a grammar, was picked from nearly 22,000 entries.

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