The Winners! Our Bloomsday Challenge produced such a high standard that I’m giving four, not three prizes. Thank you all!

We had an excellent response to our Bloomsday Challenge – which, as you may recall, asked for tweets summarizing James Joyce’s Ulysses. Food made many pungent appearances, as did Molly Bloom at her affirmative best. We had outbreaks of gerunds; charming and deliberate banalities (like the book itself); metaphysical strolls – in short, most entries made a more than decent attempt to echo Joyce’s own intentions. Which means that we had a very successful response – delightful to have a Challenge so well taken up. Thank you one and all – for your energy, your warmth, and your good-natured, uncynical participation, and here are the fine winners.

@geriatricus Prismatic prose, Dublin day-trip, guilt and yearning, rhetorically meaty treatise of the grand and the banal.

@lindenstein  "Dublin and its inhabitants on one rambling & otherwise ordinary day. Dublin itself is one of most carefully drawn characters."

@perko A perversely idealistic man describes his day of selfsame consequence, stewing in the broth of life's foul inner organs

@StanCarey  A man dissolved in many resolved in Molly comes to charms with a day in the life of a city all senses in Bloom.