[Jayne Osborn]

I've always assumed that those who won twice used different names and addresses - as opposed to submitting multiple entries and offering pseudonyms, as John does - so Tessa doesn't know they're the same person.

Bazza, Bill and Brian might disabuse me of this notion... or not.

Jayne

[John Whitworth]

Surely everybody knows Bazza is at least three persons. Still, pehaps I ought to use different addresses. But what a business!

Anyway they all come from the same computer and from the same email address. Would I need multiple email addressses and multiple computers?

[Jayne Osborn]

Anyway they all come from the same computer and from the same email address. Would I need multiple email addresses and multiple computers?

No, John, I'd suggest that if you submit as ''Someone Else'', you simply email your poem to that person and they submit it - just as if they had in fact written the poem themselves! (Get your sister to do it, perhaps.)

Tessa gets a poem with a real name, a real email address and a real postal address. You get the kudos when you reveal that "Josephine Bloggs", or whoever, is in fact you.

Jayne

[John Whitworth]

Do you know, Jayne, I think you might be right?

[Alan Rain]

Originally Posted by John Whitworth

Surely everybody knows Bazza is at least three persons.

I know of schizophrenia, but this is remarkable.

[Rob Stuart]

The countryside abounds in rustic charm-
I wonder why I've never been before?
I envy he who labours on a farm
Instead of punching keys behind a door.
I love the ‘zoidurrr’ and the hearty food,
The bawdy songs the locals like to sing,
Their readiness to frolic in the nude
Inside a sacred megalithic ring,
And how their wise old womenfolk attest
A swallowed shrew’s the thing to cure a wart.
Tomorrow, which is May Day, they request
I join them for a function of some sort.
I’ve heard a cryptic rumour that they plan
To introduce me to their 'wicker man’…?

[Jayne Osborn]

Rob,

I shall have nightmares tonight, now that you've reminded me about Wicker Man. That film totally freaks me out. Aaargghhh!!!!

But seriously, that's a terrific entry, with an unusual angle. I'd put money on it...

Jayne

[Rob Stuart]

Thank you Jayne. Sorry for the nightmares, though.

[Julie Steiner]

Originally Posted by Alan Rain

I know of schizophrenia, but this is remarkable.

Nah, it's theology.

[Jayne Osborn]

“Oh, you must come and visit me, Darling,
in this charming old cottage of mine.
I have a nice guest room,
in fact it’s the best room;
the view from it’s simply divine.”

So I went, leaving what I was used to:
city life with its permanent thrill.
My great-aunt was charming,
though it was alarming
how difficult days were to fill.

No, I’m sorry, I can’t hack the country:
the slow life, the silence as well.
That first time – and last time –
not my kind of pastime
at all. It’s as lonely as hell.