Lucy Vickery

Rhyme time

6 September 2014 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2863 you were invited to recast a well-known nursery rhyme in the style of a well-known author.…

Dark thoughts

30 August 2014 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2862 you were invited to submit a poetic preview of when the lights go out. Submissions were…

Tourist misinformation

23 August 2014 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2861 you were invited to submit misleading snippets of advice for British tourists travelling abroad. A previous…

Pet sounds

16 August 2014 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2860 you were invited to submit a short ode on the death of a pet in unusual…

Voter repellent

9 August 2014 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2859 you were invited to submit an offputting party political broadcast by the Tories, Labour, the Lib…

Hidden talent

2 August 2014 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2858 you were invited to imagine that a well-known figure from 20th-century history was a secret poet…

Spinning Jenny

26 July 2014 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2857 you were invited to take the first line of Leigh Hunt’s mini rondeau ‘Jenny Kissed me’,…

Soccer lesson

19 July 2014 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2856 you were invited to recruit a well-known author of your choice to give Phil Neville a…

Dead-end job

12 July 2014 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2855 you were invited to compose an elegy for an endangered profession. Estate agents, travel agents, publishers,…

Fresh food

5 July 2014 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2854 you were invited to invent a title for a new cookery book, with a fresh angle,…

Ground work

28 June 2014 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2853 you were asked to incorporate the following words (they are real geological terms) into a piece…

Unlikely champion

21 June 2014 8:00 am

In Competition No. 2852 you were invited to step into the shoes of a well-known writer of your choice and…

Paxmanic

14 June 2014 8:00 am

In Competition No. 2851 you were invited to mark Jeremy Paxman’s departure from Newsnight by supplying an extract from an…

Proverbial

7 June 2014 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2850 you were invited to invent proverbs that sound profound but have no meaning. This was an…

When Van Gogh lived in London

31 May 2014 9:00 am

Eighty-seven Hackford Road, SW9, is unremarkable but for a blue plaque telling the world that Vincent van Gogh once lived…

Lines on the Beeb

31 May 2014 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2849 you were invited to submit a poem in praise or dispraise of the BBC. The entry…

Scottish question

24 May 2014 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2848 you were invited to submit a poem commenting on Scottish independence in the style of William…

Double celebration

17 May 2014 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2847 you were invited to submit a poem celebrating a famous duo. You wheeled out a colourful…

The write stuff

10 May 2014 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2846 you were invited to invent the six rules for writing of a well-known author of your…

I’m a non-believer

3 May 2014 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2845 you were invited to provide a hymn for atheists. This excellent, and topical, competition was suggested…

Inconsequential

26 April 2014 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2844 you were invited to provide an extract from either a gripping thriller or a bodice-ripping romance…

Poet’s choice

19 April 2014 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2843 you were given a list of poets’ surnames — motion, bridges, wilde, gray, cope, hood, burns…

Putdownable

12 April 2014 9:00 am

In Competition 2842 you were invited to compose the most off-putting book blurb that you could muster. There’s just space…

Michael Craig-Martin pokes a giant yellow pitchfork at the ordinary

5 April 2014 9:00 am

Visitors to Chatsworth House this spring might wonder if they have stumbled through the looking-glass. The estate’s rolling parkland has…

Vice verse

5 April 2014 9:00 am

In Competition 2841 you were invited to paint an amusing portrait in verse of the vice and folly of humankind.…