6 APRIL 1985, Page 35

Competition

No. 1366: Macspaunday

Set by Jaspistos: Macspaunday was the `portmanteau' name (MacNeice, Spender, Auden, Day Lewis) invented by Roy Campbell to personify the worst aspects of the left-wing poets of the Thirties. Spender once wrote a poem in praise of pylons. You are invited to write a poem (maximum 16 lines) in praise of some equally ugly piece of modern machinery, in the Macspaunday manner. Entries to 'Competition No. 1366' by 19 April.