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Originally Posted by Jerome Betts View Post
Further to Basil's Porcupineand the other two collections I vaguely remember an NS comp collection called Salome dear, not in the fridge. Can anyone confirm?
This was the 50s/ early 60s NS comp anthology. There was also one called Salome Dear Not In The Porcupine, which was a pick of two volumes.

There are also three earlier competition anthologies:

New Statesman Competitions ed GF Stonier (1946)
New Statesman Competitions (original thinking!) ed Arthur Marshall (1955)
and also - from the start of the competitions in The Week-end Review -

The Week-end Calendar ed Gerald Barry (1932) - originally intended to be just competitions, but changed to include W-eR articles from 1930-1932 as well

At the time of writing you can see the first 240 or so comps on my OU research website, https://nscompsandpoets.wordpress.com/ - it's a bit raggedy but the material is there along with some solecisms and typos, for which apologies.

Bill
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