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Competition

Double celebration

17 May 2014

9:00 AM

17 May 2014

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 2847 you were invited to submit a poem celebrating a famous duo.

You wheeled out a colourful cast of pairings. Ray Kelley sang the praises of Flanders and Swann: ‘Never was there a sweeter fit/ of wit to melody, melody to wit’. Brian Allgar proposed a toast to that gruesome twosome Burke and Hare.

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