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Well done Kasper! Yes - prizes and awards are a little double-edged (smarting from a Walkley award defeat here), but you should enjoy the moment. And it's bloody fine poem. Caleb On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:48 AM, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Helsinki university's english dept held a poetry competition last month, > and > I entered.. and it looks like I won it. > I heard it off the cuff from someone who thought I already knew, made me > wobbly for a second. I'm still pretty wobbly actually. I've never entered > let alone won a poetry contest before. > there will be information about it on the university webpage, but knowing > their techs it won't be for a while. here's a link the the poem that did > it. > > http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfr8jjpv_81cq4kcjgv&hl=en > > people have been congratulating me on facebook all damn day, it makes me > feel.. I suppose grateful & flattered, but really it's just a little > feeling > of confusion or disquiet. for no reason I can really pinpoint. is there > some > condition known as post-victory depression? haha. I'm chuffed, anyway. > > KS >