For Competition 3457 you were invited to submit a weather forecast in verse. There were nods to Shakespeare, Eliot, Hardy and MacNeice in a large, varied and accomplished entry. An honourable mention goes to John O’Byrne’s haiku: Mother Nature cries Stopping play at Wimbledon: Not any one’s fault. The entries printed below net their authors
For Competition 3457 you were invited to submit a weather forecast in verse.
There were nods to Shakespeare, Eliot, Hardy and MacNeice in a large, varied and accomplished entry. An honourable mention goes to John O’Byrne’s haiku:
Mother Nature cries
Stopping play at Wimbledon:
Not any one’s fault.
Comp. 3455 invited you to supply some local response (in prose or poetry) to the absence of Glastonbury Festival, which is…
For Competition 3454 you were invited to encapsulate a well-known poem in four lines. I found this entertaining parlour game in…
For Competition 3451 you were invited to supply an acrostic poem praising or dispraising a public figure in which the word/s…
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