SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 87
Set by Derek Hudson
The following poem on the role of the harpist in an orchestra has been attributed to Laurence McKinney : " She is the largest tuner-upper and has to have an early supper, and seated in a lone- some chair proceeds to wind up the affair. Then she will sit and sit and wait dispassionate and desolate. . . . And after some chromatic bits—she simply sits and sits and sits." A prize of f. 5, which may be divided, is offered for a poem of the same length, written as _prose, on one of the following : A waiter, a liftman, a chiropodist, a lighthouse-keeper, a B.B.C. news-reader, a professional boxer.
Entries must be addressed to the Spectator, 99, Gower Street, London, W.C.1, in envelopes marked " Competition," and must be received not later than October 24th. Results will be published in the Spectator of November 2nd.
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