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Competition

Spectator competition winners: John Milton’s ‘Three Blind Mice’

25 November 2023

9:00 AM

25 November 2023

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3326 you were invited to submit a nursery rhyme recast in the style of a well-known poet.

One of my favourite twists on a nursery rhyme is Lewis Carroll’s ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat’, the Mad Hatter’s party piece in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you’re at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a teatray in the sky.


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