Interestingly, King Lear supplied a model for two of today's winners, one being the redoubtable Bill Greenwell. I won (with prose much to my surprise and delight) with A A Milne and there was The Wind in the Willows also represented - ah the reading matterof today's pensioners when they were children!
Wendy Cope wrote something that would do here - in her first book I think.
NO. 2722: occasional verse
You are invited to supply an all-purpose poem for state occasions (16 lines max). Please email entries, if possible, to
lucy@spectator.co.uk by midday on 9 November.
Speccie Occasional
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