I’ve just received notification that my poem ‘King Heron’ didn’t win the competition that I entered it into a few months ago. Whilst this is obviously deeply disappointing news and shows that the competition judges didn’t really know what they were doing it is also exactly what I expected to happen (and, of course, I didn’t really mean my comments about the level of disappointment or about the judges).

The good news is that I am now in a position to remove the password that the poem currently sits behind and publish it for anyone who happens to stumble on this site to see.

I think that King Heron is one of my better poems so hopefully someone will pass through, see it, read it and enjoy it.

(c) Tim O’Hare, March 2024