A poem of “beauty, wit and grace” that explores an encounter between the living and the dead has won the National Poetry Competition for a single poem in English.
Lee Stockdale’s My Dead Father’s General Store in the Middle of a Desert was chosen as the winner by judges Jason Allen-Paisant, Greta Stoddart and Michael Symmons Roberts from more than 17,000 poems entered into the competition from poets in 103 countries.
