Congratulations to the winner of our recent ‘Laughter Lines’ poetry competition, Ana Reisens, who tickled us pink with her poem, ‘The Translated Instruction Manual for Loving’. We loved the way the poet created a poetic guide for love by piecing together funny excerpts from badly translated instructed manuals. 

Congratulations also to our top three runners-up (in no particular order):

• Larry Needham – ‘Marriage Bed of the Roses’
• Max Clayton Clowes – ‘Sunset’
• Jim Burns – ‘Tourist Trap’

All four poems will be appearing in our upcoming Autumn issue, Machinery. Congratulations to all our top entries, and to everyone else who entered. With so many witty and creative entries, it was a tough competition to judge this time around!

We’ll definitely need to do this again sometime.