This month's winner has been chosen by the first ever Poem of the Month winner, Clare Kirwan. Clare says, "It's a chatty, playful poem which teases and resonates on different levels... consumerism, confusion amongst a surfeit of choices and the difficulties of putting people into categories."

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WHITE GOODS

I went to see God in the out of town shopping centre

He has invited me to buy
64 thousand five hundred and seventy eight
independently priced washing machines

he sold me the merits of every one

in a trance I watched the drums spin and the pair of us stood together
like gay lovers on a his and hers shopping exhibition
I wore the trousers this time

I am amazed at the technological advances

he tells me that one model in particular
can actually play music as it attends to your wife’s
fifty knuckle shuffle

I corrected him and told him she was a he.

I asked whether it would stop her moaning

He stuttered momentarily, then looking perplexed,
replied that he would have to check the instruction leaflet.