A well crafted line could lead to a free meal from Vintage Inns, in a competition being judged by former Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion.
The national competition is being held to honour Great British country pubs. Each week Sir Andrew will choose one line, from those submitted, to take the poem forwards.
The poem that results will be an accumulation of those winning lines. The opening line is: ‘The muted brilliance of autumn leaves.’
Each week one person will receive a signed copy of one of Sir Andrew’s books along with dinner for four, plus wine, at their local Vintage Inn.
Sir Andrew will also be producing his own verse on the Great British country pubs theme.
Vintage Inns, a Mitchell’s & Butlers pub chain, features ‘real ales, real fires and pub-food as hearty and warming as the welcome.’
There are nearly 200 Vintage Inns throughout the country.
Sir Andrew was Poet Laureate between 1999 and 2009. His sequence of war poems ‘Laurels and Donkeys’ will be featured on BBC Radio 4 over the weekend to honour Remembrance Sunday.
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