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Competition

The secret lives of poets

21 March 2020

9:00 AM

21 March 2020

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3140 you were invited to submit a poem in the style of a famous poet in which they make a surprising confession.

It’s elbow-bumps all round this week: an excellent entry. Douglas G. Brown reveals the raciness (gin; trollops) that lurks beneath Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s high-minded exterior.

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