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Competition

No, 1220: Juvenilia

Set by Jaspistos: In his youth, apparently, Leonid Brezhnev was a keen and fertile poet. You are invited to provide a transla- tion of a poem he might have written in his starrier--,yed days (maximum 16 lines). En- tries to 'Competition No. 1220' by 11 June.