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Anne Hodnette - shortlisted in the Poetry on Loan Poetry Competition 2023
This is Not Farewell Anne Hodnette


There were no riches here. No Ming vase.
Only great grandma’s tea pot, won at the fair,

a delicate china bowl, that shattered as I looked at it,
a sewing machine from Noah’s Ark, a thousand buttons, pins.

This month's front page poem is by Anne Hodnette, who was one of our shortlisted poets in the Poetry On Loan poetry competition for 2023.  The competition is judged by a panel of librarians from across the West Midlands.   

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