15 OCTOBER 1988, Page 53

No. 1547: Sexameters

You are invited to write some English hexameters (maximum 16 lines) beginning with the words 'I am in love, mean- time. . (words with which Clough, one of the few poets who could write hexameters attractively, began a section of his 'Amours de Voyage'). Entries to 'Competition No. 1547' by 28 October.