4 OCTOBER 1997, Page 67

No. 2005: Tennysonian mode

In Idylls of the King comes the line, 'Then slowly answered Arthur from the barge . . . . ' Reading tar' for 'barge' and Arthur not necessarily being the King, you are invited to continue for a maximum of 15 more lines of blank verse. Entries to 'Com- petition No. 2005' by 16 October.