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Competition

Pylon poetry

11 June 2015

1:00 PM

11 June 2015

1:00 PM

In Competition No. 2901 you were invited to write a poem in praise of a modern-day blot on the landscape.

Stephen Spender wasn’t praising pylons on aesthetic grounds in his notorious poem but celebrating the progress that these non-human structures embody: ‘There runs the quick/perspective of the future’.


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