Competition
Officially amazing
In Competition No. 3019 you were invited to submit a limerick describing a feat worthy of inclusion in Guinness World…
Get a life
In Competition No. 3018 you were invited to take your lead from Meik Wiking — CEO at the Happiness Research…
On the house
In Competition No. 3017 you were invited to submit a sonnet containing household tips. You were on sparkling form…
Diary stories
In Competition No. 3016 you were invited to submit an extract from the diary of the spouse of a high-profile…
Watching the clock
In Competition No. 3015 you were invited to submit a poem about Big Ben’s bongs. The decision to remove…
From me to you
In Competition No. 3014 you were invited to submit a love poem written by one contemporary politician to another. …
Flavour of the month
In Competition No. 3013 you were invited to submit a poem in praise or dispraise of August. There was…
Reprogramming
In Competition No. 3012 you were invited to change a letter in the title of a well-known play and submit…
Bowing and scraping
In Competition No. 3011 you were invited to submit a disgustingly flattering poem in heroic couplets in praise of a…
Monster mash-up
In Competition No. 3010, a nod to the late, great George Romero, you were invited to provide an extract from…
Quotidian
In Competition No. 3009 you were invited to submit a poem about a domestic object. I set this challenge…
New beginnings
In Competition No. 3008 you were invited to take the last line of a well-known novel and make it the…
Cat call
In Competition No. 3007 you were invited to submit a poem about Larry, the Downing Street cat. Larry came to…
Laughing matter
In Competition No. 3006 you were invited to submit a sonnet that takes as its opening line Keats’s ‘Why did…
Brought to book
In Competition No. 3005 you were invited to take your inspiration from Anthony Lane’s terrific ‘The Book of Jeremy Corbyn’,…
What Alice did next
In Competition No. 3004 you were invited to submit an extract from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Trumpland. As I was…
Political clerihew
In Competition No. 3003 you were invited to supply clerihews about contemporary politicians. In an enormous and excellent entry, popular…
Song for Europe
In Competition No. 3002 you were invited to provide lyrics to the European anthem. The anthem has as its…
Health matters
In Competition No. 3001 you were invited to take inspiration from the recently published Walt Whitman’s Guide to Manly Health…
Question time
In Competition No. 3000 you were invited to provide an answer, in verse or prose, to a famous literary question…
A bad lot
In Competition No. 2999 you were invited to supply a poem which takes as its first line W.S. Gilbert’s ‘A policeman’s…
Lost in translation
In Competition No. 2998 you were invited to submit a set of instructions for an everyday device that have been…
Global mourning
In Competition No. 2997 you were invited to submit an obituary for planet Earth. It was a smallish but…
Acrostic spectator
In Competition No. 2996 you were invited to submit an acrostic sonnet in which the first letters of each line…
Ribaldry
In Competition No. 2995 you were invited to submit ribald limericks as they might have been written by a well-known…
