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Well, after all the ribaldry of Competition 55 time to raise the brow or tone a little? In 1962, Philip Larkin wrote of Stevie Smith that her long pieces were"‘like William Blake rewritten by Ogden Nash". What would that combination be like in reverse order? You are invited to apply the same formula, in either order, to John Milton and John Betjeman, Robert Frost and W. S. Gilbert, Emily Dickinson and Lewis Carroll or any such coupling you prefer in up to 24 lines by 22 February 2022.

 

Two silver-painted large fish heads on ornamental lamp post

We’re on a lamp post in a street
For wheels no longer, only feet,
And chorus now in fishy rhyme
 See you again in 3 months time.