22 AUGUST 1987, Page 37

No. 1488: Whatevergoes

Masefield's 'Cargoes' (`Quinquereme of Nineveh . . .') describes three stages of one form of transport. A poem, please, in the same metre and of the same length, describing three stages, becoming more or less attractive, of any form of transport. Entries to 'Competition No. 1488' by 4 September.