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Competition

Spectator competitions: poems about the Sycamore Gap tree

28 October 2023

9:00 AM

28 October 2023

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3322 you were invited to submit a poem reflecting on the fate of the Sycamore Gap tree, planted in the late 19th century by Newcastle lawyer John Clayton.

Antony Gormley, who has a studio in Hexham near the site of the felled tree, has described it as ‘a marker in the lie of the land’.

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