ECCENTRIC ORBITS POETRY COMPETITION. Our challenge was to 'translate' the poem an alien would write to send home to convey their experience of Earth, and we received a large number of excellent and thoughtful submissions from both established and aspiring poets of all ages from all over the motu — many thanks to you all! The winner was Elizabeth M. Williams for a formally inventive and original entry that was at once scientifically rigorous, philosophically speculative — and deeply poignant. >>Read Elizabeth's winning entry.