Competition
Spectator competition winners: John Milton’s ‘Three Blind Mice’
In Competition No. 3326 you were invited to submit a nursery rhyme recast in the style of a well-known poet.…
Pleasure principle
In Competition No. 3320 you were invited to submit a poem extolling Epicureanism over Stoicism or the other way round.…
Competition
In Competition No. 3319 you were invited to supply a description of the house of a well-known figure from the…
Spectator competition winners: why you should never open a novel with the weather
In Competition No. 3317 you were invited to provide an opening to a novel that bears out Elmore Leonard’s tip…
Chamber music
In Competition No. 3311, you were invited to submit a song suitable for inclusion in a parliamentary songbook. In an…
Verse in reverse
In Competition No. 3309, you were invited to compose a poem starting with the last line of any well-known poem…
Travellers’ tales
In Competition No. 3208 you were invited to submit a short story whose first or last line is: ‘“Is there…
The Italian job
In Competition No. 3207 you were invited to submit a verse obituary of Silvio Berlusconi. The Italian former prime minister…
Futurism
In Competition No. 3306, you were invited to submit a poem about procrastination. Procrastination looms large in Out of Sheer…
Sonnets on sonnets
In Competition No. 3305, you were invited to submit a sonnet entitled ‘Sonnet On Famous And Familiar Sonnets’. The germ…
