Lucy Vickery

Competition: Mixing it

issue 18 February 2012

In Competition No. 2734 you were invited to provide anagrams of lines from Shakespearean sonnets.

These assignments are not the most popular but every so often the urge to send you to anagram hell gets the better of me. ‘I found this competition exasperatingly difficult,’ wrote Josephine Boyle. Equally exasperated, it seems, was Basil Ransome-Davies, whose email subject line read: ‘Everlasting fire for this one’.

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