In Competition No. 2812 you were invited to provide a poem celebrating bookshops.
Space is tight, which leaves room only for a congratulatory slap on the back all-round but especially to unlucky losers Max Ross, who submitted a clever acrostic, Gerard Benson, James Leslie-Melville, Lydia Shaxberd, Alison Zucker and Annette Field.
The prizewinners below earn £25 each.
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