In Competition No. 3290, you were invited to recast the Lord’s Prayer as a sonnet.
The late Frank Kermode reckoned that any schoolboy can write a sonnet, but this challenge was a deceptively simple one; as Nick MacKinnon observed: ‘the Lord’s Prayer is very efficient’.
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