I couldn't get a handle on modern maladies at all, but Bill Greenwell brilliantly could. The fiver should have been his. But congratulations all the same.
This Competition has surely appeared before. But the old tunes are the best, aren't they?
NO. 2715: in brief
You are invited to condense the plot of a well-known novel into a poem of 16 lines or fewer. Please email entries, if possible, to
lucy@spectator.co.uk by midday on 21 September.