Fiona Larkin has won this year’s £5,000 National Poetry Competition with ‘Absence has a Grammar’, which was described by judges Romalyn Ante, John McAuliffe and Stephen Sexton as “very impressive, ingenious and affecting”.

The winning poem was inspired by a family visit to Helsinki. Fiona Larkin said: “I was in Helsinki last August with all my family except my son Alex, who was moving to Brisba...

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