[Jayne Osborn]

Here's the latest challenge.

Who's going to be the next Spherian to win lots of dough?
It was no recipe for disaster last month - we were "cooking with gas", thanks to having Chris and Martin in the line-up. Good luck with mixing those ingredients and turning out a good poem.

Please write, in verse form, some sort of recipe. Poems should, as always, rhyme and scan, in twenty-four lines or fewer. Send them to reach these offices (by email if you must/live abroad) by 29 November.

(By post: The Literary Review, 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW
By email: editorial@literaryreview.co.uk)