In Competition No. 2469 you were invited to supply a poem in which the initial letters of each line, read down the page, reproduce the first line.
Another comp that was last set nearly 30 years ago, when it was won by J. Crooks with the intriguing key line, ‘Moguls at the BBC’.
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