Poetry competition celebrates 800th Anniversary (UK)

"A variety of thoughtful, inventive and moving poems have won a poetry competition that celebrates Cambridge University’s 800th Anniversary. The Haddon Library of Archaeology and Anthropology invited members of the public to write poems that included the numbers 800, 1209, and 2009, significant dates in the University's 800 year history. The numbers could have been used in any way the poet wanted, as dates, amounts of money or even postcodes. Winning poem 'His eightieth' was written by Roger Elkin, a recognised English poet who has won over 100 prizes in competitions across the world"