Competition
Love me do
In Competition No. 3302, you were invited to compose a dating app profile for a writer of your choice. To…
Brunch with Byron
In Competition No. 3300, you were invited to describe in verse a meal of your choice with a well-known poet,…
Triplicate
In Competition No. 3298, you were invited to provide a book review in three haiku. When I saw that the…
Triple time
In Competition No. 3296, you were invited to provide a poem whose rhyme words are all at least three syllables.…
Vegetarian
In Competition No. 3294, you were invited to provide the first 16 lines of an ode to a turnip or…
Speaker’s corner
In Competition No. 3292, you were invited to provide a poem to mark the death of Betty Boothroyd. The formidable…
Let us pray
In Competition No. 3290, you were invited to recast the Lord’s Prayer as a sonnet. The late Frank Kermode reckoned…
Man down
In Competition No. 3289, you were invited to provide an extract from a politically correct version of a work by…
Bring up the bodies
In Competition No. 3288, you were invited to supply a sonnet on an embarrassing ailment. To make space for as…
Subject matters
In Competition No. 3287, you were invited to supply a review of a film, novel, poem or play in the…
That’s amore
In Competition No. 3286, you were invited to submit a toe-curling Valentine poem to Harry, or to the love object…
On song
In Competition No. 3285, you were invited to supply an extract from the libretto of a musical based on the…
Hoping for the best
In Competition No. 3281, you were invited to provide 16 lines of cheerful welcome to 2023 in the metre of…
You’ve got mail
In Competition No. 3280, you were invited to submit an updating of W.H. Auden’s ‘Night Mail’ entitled ‘Email’. ‘Night Mail’…
