This was one for the A team, or most of them viz Bill Greenwell, Brian Allgar and Chris O'Carroll. I didn't even get to the starting line though I'm an avid scandifan, but these guys are right on the button. They were so good they all read like the same book. I particularly liked Brian Allgar getting Ruth Rendell in there.
The next competition is more my sort of thing. I am sure lots of you will do something good.
NO. 2759: second hand
You are invited to submit a well-known poem rewritten by another well-known poet, e.g., T.S. Eliot rewrites ‘Ozymandias’ (16 lines maximum). Please email entries, wherever possible, to
lucy@spectator.co.uk by midday on 8 August.