Lucy Vickery presents the latest competition
In Competition No. 2668 you were invited to submit a poem that contains advice from young to old.
Several of you took as your starting point Robert Southey’s po-faced ‘The Old Man’s Comforts and how he gained them’ — or Lewis Carroll’s much more enjoyable parody of it as recited by Alice in chapter five of her Adventures In Wonderland.
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