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Unread 11-11-2011, 09:33 PM
Chris O'Carroll Chris O'Carroll is offline
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Here's the competition announcement, complete with the email address, and with magazine's (I think too rigid) definition of the form. They require nonsense words for line 1, and they insist that the one-word line can't fall just anywhere in the poem, but has to be line 6. (Although they seem to be a bit lax about what counts as a double-dactylic word. Respectability?)

No 4203 Set by Leonora Casement -- We’d like you to have a go at one of our favourites: the double dactyl comp. All lines are double dactyls except lines four and eight. Line one is a nonsense word. Line two is a proper name, and line six a single word. Line four rhymes with line eight. The subject must be a current figure. Here’s a previous winner (Wendy Cope, no less) to inspire you:

Higgledy-piggledy,
Ludovic Kennedy
Dresses with care when he
Goes on the box.

Viewing a tie of such
Respectability,
Would you have guessed that he
Doesn’t wear socks?

Verses in by 17 November
comp@newstatesman.co.uk
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