Lucy Vickery presents the latest competition
In Competition No. 2600 you were invited to submit a poem containing the first or last line ‘Whenever you see a rhinoceros’.
Inspiration for this comp came from Philip.mortimer (who signed himself with an email address only), who sent me a copy of a letter from Richard Jebb to the widowed American intellectual and socialite Carrie Slemmer, whom he later married.

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