[FOsen]

By my count, there are now four potential competitions:

1. One in which each line is an anagram for the same poet:
Alarmed, later, we
ladle warmer tea
[Walter de la Mare]

2. One in which each line's an anagram for a different poet:
Hog my enchilada,
Tamale war elder
[Michael Donaghy and WdlM]

3 and 4 are either of the above, but with extraneous letters and words allowed in each line. Why say, "in which each line is an anagram" then? I admit, I'd like to be able to make a possessive out of Fleur Adcock's name, to permit elk fads occur, which could produce something really topical and incisive.

But has anyone noticed that the Spectator posted the instructions for its "Mixed Messages" competition on April 1st?

Finally, I'd like to broach the possibility that each line may contain one word from the anagram of the same or a different well known poet's name, each anagram to contain as many words as the poem has lines, except that extra words and/or lines will be permitted.

Frank