Lucy Vickery

Spectator competition winners: In memoriam Geronimo the alpaca

[Andrew Lloyd / Alamy Stock Photo] 
issue 11 September 2021

In Competition No. 3215, you were -invited to supply a poem about Geronimo the alpaca. The camelid’s fate was finally settled just the day before the closing date for this challenge, and your entries have an added poignancy now that we know which way the dice rolled for poor old Geronimo.

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