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Competition

Spectator competition winners: poems on the death of Prince Philip

8 May 2021

9:00 AM

8 May 2021

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3197, you were invited to supply a poem to mark the death of Prince Philip.

I wondered if anyone, inspired by his touching lines on the death of his beloved Queen Victoria, might channel the poet and tragedian William McGonagall:

Alas! our noble and generous Queen Victoria is dead,
And I hope her soul to Heaven has fled,
To sing and rejoice with saints above,
Where ah is joy, peace, and love.


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