Martin Parker and Bill Greenwell were in the money this week, and Julie Stoner just out of it. I'm talking about palinodes. You can see the winners under Competition below.
The new competition is this one, not obviously a poem, but see what I append below.
No. 2632: Uninviting
You are invited to supply the wording of the classified ad that is least likely to illicit a response (100 words maximum). Please email entries, where possible, to
lucy@spectator.co.uk by midday on 27 January.
Now, for those of you who have never come across it, here is an obvious winner of this competition. Unfortunately for me, I didn't write it. Ronald Knox did.
An Anglican curate, in want of a portable, second-hand font, will exchange for the same a portrait (in frame) of the Bishop-elect of Vermont.