Instead, I think that inanimate objects lead mysterious lives beyond our comprehension, and that this is partly why they are so intriguing for poets. Perhaps this obsession with objects belongs to a part of me that’s incorrigibly materialistic and ought to be ignored – but I don’t think so. Nowadays I do less collecting and more writing, but I’m still intrigued by objects and their stories. I aspired to create a museum of all the objects I’d salvaged – fragments of china, rusty horseshoes found in the fields around my house, and tarnished spoons that no one wanted anymore. Trinkets by Andrew Malone via flickr The challenge: write a poem(s) about, or from the perspective of, an inanimate objectĪs a child, inanimate objects fascinated me, especially those that were old or obsolete and spoke to me of the past. Congratulations, too, to the longlisted poets whose work impressed the judge: Jamie Baty, Sabrina Guo, Hania Habib, Elsie Hayward, Brigitta McKeever, Divya Mehrish, Sinéad O’Reilly, Nisha Patel, Charmayne Pountney Board, Ella Standage, Stephanie Themistocleous and Daniel Wale.
Congratulations to the winners, whose poems you can read in the sidebar.
In our third August challenge this year, Foyle Young Poet Euan Sinclair asks you to imagine the inner lives of inanimate objects.
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