Lucy Vickery

Sobering thoughts | 22 September 2007

In Competition No. 2512 you were invited to submit a description of a hangover in heroic couplets.

issue 22 September 2007

In Competition No. 2512 you were invited to submit a description of a hangover in heroic couplets. I judged the comp after a night’s carousing and your couplets, which were clearly informed by bitter experience, elicited shudders of queasy recognition and the inevitable doomed resolution never again to touch a drop.

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