[Jerome Betts]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18493264

I wonder what Thomas Hood would have made of this event? Any Sphereans involved?

I foresee either the missing Monegasque or the North Korean court poet's works turning up as a comp, so this is to give you all a chance get your practice in early . . .

There must be some bards born Alaskan
But not, it would seem Monegasquean.
Do we sense something fishy and smelly
In the land of the late G.P. Kelly?

[John Whitworth]

What about a poet from the Kingdom of Fife, that's what I want to know. Did Macbeth write a ditty or two?

[Chris O'Carroll]

Poetry Parnassus Blues

It proved a thankless task
Tracking down at least
One bard Monegasque
Who was not deceased.

[Jerome Betts]

Lichenstein made it, though, Chris.

John, was not the following found on Macbeth's mangled corpse?

I twice met three weirdoes or witches -
My God, weren't they just lying bitches!
Birnam Wood, it is plain,
Has reached Dunsinane
And Duff's dam sported post-partum stitches!

[Chris O'Carroll]

Parnassian Flyweights

O Liechtenstein,
Sie sind so klein --
Far bigger, though,
Than Monaco.

[basil ransome-davies]

The world of verse would be far poorer
Without the poets of Andorra.
Who does not know the global fame
Of Thingy There and Whatshisname?