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Competition

Poet’s choice

19 April 2014

9:00 AM

19 April 2014

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 2843 you were given a list of poets’ surnames — motion, bridges, wilde, gray, cope, hood, burns and browning — and asked to incorporate them into a poem or piece of prose. I gave you scope for showing off by inviting you to cram in extra names should you choose to.

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