Lucy Vickery presents this week’s competition
In Competition No. 2681 you were invited to submit a treble clerihew about a public figure who was prominent in 2009 or 2010.
Jaspistos, who ran a similar competition some years ago, noted that it was E.C. Bentley’s son, the author and illustrator Nicolas Bentley, who invented the double clerihew form.
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