2022 Don Gutteridge Poetry Award

1st Prize

Title: Mangoes from the Seventh Dimension

Author: John Tyndall

ISBN: 978-1-989786-84-0

Publisher: Wet Ink Books

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Flinders’ Fingers

Flinders Petrie on Egyptian expedition methodically dug down through layers of potsherds, layers of remote time detailed the fragments recorded their location devised a classification of successive cultures and even where no vessels remained in situ sometimes the contents somehow still lingered with sand much darker at one ancient level where his fingers the first in millennia and in the name of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria grasped and released fragrant sacred perfume for the Scorpion god