ABSTRACT
Back in October 1993 I was invited by Winnicott Studies to compile a mini-anthology of poems which would be included in an issue devoted to the arts. I wrote a round-robin letter to many poets of my acquaintance, inviting unpublished poems on a Winnicottian theme in the most general sense—creativity, play, childhood. There was no obligation to read Winnicott: this was not an academic or professional exercise and I make no claim that the whole amounts to more than the sum of the parts. I ended up with the following fourteen poems, happily dividing equally between female and male writers. Ideally, all readers will enjoy all the poems but if any reader finds even one poem he or she likes enough to reread from time to time, the job will have been worthwhile.
