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Competition

Mark making

9 March 2017

3:00 PM

9 March 2017

3:00 PM

In Competition No. 2988 you were invited to compose a poem making the case for a national commemoration day for a person or thing of your choice.
 
While Alanna Blake championed the dandelion, there were also impassioned calls for days that high-five Thomas Crapper, Doris Day and the tent. I, for one, would happily celebrate a Tom Waits day with Adrian Fry.

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