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Spectator competition winners: poets bemoan a problematic appendage

30 April 2022

9:00 AM

30 April 2022

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3246, you were invited to submit a poem in the style of the poet of your choice about a problematic appendage.

Taking pride of place alongside Philip Larkin’s troublesome penis were Heaney’s big toe, Shelley’s belly, and a series of noses, among them Mike Morrison/Ogden Nash:

This nose/conk/beak/hooter/schnozzle
Has brought me nothing but anguish and schemozzle…

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