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Competition

Flavour of the month

2 September 2017

9:00 AM

2 September 2017

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3013 you were invited to submit a poem in praise or dispraise of August.
 
There was a whiff of collusion about the entry this week, so many references were there to rubbish television, rubbish weather, fractious kiddies, tired gardens, traffic jams; as Katie Mallett puts it: ‘A turgid time of torpor and delay.

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