Be Bare Too 9-6-08 -

Written in Scots dialect, describing "revellers drinking through the night" and "hordes o' bonnie lasses". Competition | 6 September 2008 | The Spectator

A somber take on the festival crowds at Glastonbury's fields. Be Bare Too 9-6-08

The phrase "And youthful bodies bare" is a line from one of the winning entries, specifically a parody of A.E. Housman written by Basil Ransome-Davies. Written in Scots dialect

The feature included several winning poems that reimagined the music festival through the voices of poets like Wilfred Owen , Robert Burns , and John Milton . Other Winning Entries (9-6-08) Be Bare Too 9-6-08