Ulysses Spangle escapes from a box
Every night
On a stage down in Devon
He settles inside it at six fifty-eight
Wrapped in chains
And breaks out around seven
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Ian Brownlie lives with his family in Marlow, Bucks (UK). He has been longlisted for the Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition and Searchlight’s Best Novel Opening award. Ian has poems and stories for children in The Dirigible Balloon, Tyger Tyger, Little Thoughts, The School Magazine, Nimblewitlit and The Toy. His writing for adults has appeared, or is upcoming, in SHINE Quarterly, Rough Diamond, Underbelly, streetcake and Viridine, and he was recently nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
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