Duelling Poets

For 30 days in 2012, Michelle and Victor each wrote a poem a day, taking turns to choose the titles.

Michelle is an author, who was in her late 20s at the time, and Victor, a retired journalist in his 70s. Their differing experiences and perspectives created contrasting poems, despite being written about the same theme.

In Duelling Poets, we invite you to read the poems and choose your favourites, then at the end, you can see which poet wins the duel for you.

May the best poet win