Write a letter to either Judith Beveridge or Francis Webb telling them how one of their poems has made a deep impression on you. 

Mr Francis Webb,

I admire your sensitivity that is portrayed in your poems. Your undoubted talent to manifest the fragile into the great is outstanding. Upon analysing your poem, “Five Days Old,” I found myself relating to your amazement for such a tiny creature that overwhelmed you which such intense emotion.  I myself was overwhelmed with a similar emotion at 11 years old when I held my five day old sister who had a tick stuck into her head. I calmly and patiently held my sister whilst my mother frazzled to get tweezers to remove the insect. Myself only at a young age, looking down into my baby sisters eyes, I could relate to the pure amazement of watching a baby. Their fresh smell coupled with the desire for the child to grow up to do great things, brought on by your own hopes and failures, is a strong confrontation. Looking back now, my sisters “exquisite yawn” amongst  the utter anguish and guilt my mother was experiencing from taking her newborn daughter for a walk down the street and exposing her to the wild nature, exemplifies the ability of a baby to possess such greatness, despite being only 30 cm long. This is more notably seen in the line, “fearless delicacies” where you portray the fragility of a baby as being used a strength to conquer all that surrounds them.  This poem you have written with such monumental themes of being reborn and transformed, despite the mistreatment and feelings of loneliness you have experienced is admiring. I love how you have taken such a small moment and magnified the meaning of life through the baby and its connotations of pureness. I thoroughly enjoyed this poem, I am yet to analyse others but I am sure they will be just as great.

Kind Regards,

Caitlin