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The Chandelier Competition<\/strong><\/p>\n What would you use to bring light into our lives? Last year\u2019s winner is a hard act to follow; This creation lasted one night only \u2013 This year\u2019s judges are our most northerly neighbours : First prize this year is a month <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sue Burge<\/strong> teaches creative writing and film studies.\u00a0 She is fascinated by liminal states, silent movies and fairy tales.\u00a0 Her poetry has been published in magazines such as Mslexia and The North<\/em>. Find out more about her work at www.sueburge.co.uk <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Chandelier Competition What would you use to bring light into our lives? Candles? Crystal? Mirrors? Sparklers? Fireflies? Solar Trickery? Your entries, boxed and bubblewrapped, must reach us by midday of the winter equinox. Last year\u2019s winner is a hard act to follow; an intricate weaving of glowworms, darkness and moonlight; a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8809,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8807\/revisions\/8809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCandles? Crystal? Mirrors? Sparklers?
\nFireflies? Solar Trickery?
\nYour entries, boxed and bubblewrapped,
\nmust reach us by midday of the winter equinox.<\/p>\n
\nan intricate weaving of glowworms,
\ndarkness and moonlight;
\na perfect equilibrium of chiaroscuro.<\/p>\n
\nthe glowworms devoured
\nboth light and shade.
\nThey lay, plump and dim in the dawnlight
\nlike toothless vampires.<\/p>\n
\nIcelanders, Greenlanders, Swedes and Orcadians.
\nThey have all signed waivers
\nafter the Danes\u2019 scandalous looting
\nof last year\u2019s runners up.<\/p>\n
\nin the southern hemisphere.
\nThe darkness is coming.
\nLight a candle to Santa Lucia
\nand try your luck.<\/p>\n