The Simon Elvin Young Poet of the Year Awards 2000 marks the third year of the Simon Elvin Young Poet of the Year Awards, a unique competition offering young writers the chance to study alongside leading contemporary poets on a prizewinner's course at the The Arvon Foundation, Lumb Bank, West Yorkshire. The morning promises to go on for ever.
Nothing ever dares.
See how they orbit, see how we gape, Our universe suspended in their tiny outer space. And our ceiling is a sheet of cut-glass sky. I've knitted a multicoloured jacket for every woodlouse in the park. I've given all of the cracks in the pavement pet names and taken snapshots of individual specks of dust, though I am not a trainspotter and deny all those claims but have developed an interest in rust. The budgies in the petshop now speak fluent French and I have made friends with a golf commentator.