7 MARCH 1998, page 53

No. 2026: Pet: A Version

had a duck-billed platypus when I was up at Trinity,' begins Patrick Barrington's famous comic poem. You are invited to provide in verse (any metre) your account of keeping a......

Crossword

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Six Grapes Port for the first correct solution opened on 23 March, with two runners- up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the......

Competition

Governessy verse Jaspistos IN COMPETMON NO. 2023 you were invited to supply, for today's citizens, black-humoured advice from Nanny State, in rhyme. The most macabre piece of......

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