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Competition

Shipping lines

9 December 2017

9:00 AM

9 December 2017

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3027 you were invited to submit a poem inspired by the Shipping Forecast.
 
Life-saver, lullaby, poetic reminder of our maritime heritage, the Shipping Forecast celebrated its 150th anniversary this year. Charlotte Green has described it as the nearest she ever came to reading poetry on air; Carol Ann Duffy ended her poem ‘Prayer’ with the lines ‘Darkness outside.

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