My friend Tracey bought me Brian Bilston’s poetry book ‘Days Like These’ and I came across a shape poem he’s written and decided to have ago using a play on the word Venn within a poem that was within a Venn diagram. The Venn diagram works mathematically too, and there is a baking theme within the poem that threads through it with a final message hidden in plain sight in the middle. A clever poem that works on a number of levels – even if I do say so myself!

PUBLISHED at After/Thought Literary, February 2026