A short story beginning with the same words that Graham Greene used in ‘The Case for the Defence: ‘It was the strangest murder trial I...

An extract from the diary of a future Winston Smith 100 years after 1984 Today I despair! The women’s ‘War for Peace’ has finally...

A poem in free verse mocking rhymed, metrical verse Poetry, like water, should be left to find and follow its own course sparkling in...

A poem, addressed to a saint, asking for help over an unusual problem that comes within his or her sphere of influence Saint Antony of...

A poem in praise of a loved teacher Miss Raisin was our teacher. She was gooder than the rest, Though when we mentioned gooder she...

A sonnet in which the sextet refutes or contradicts the arguments or sentiments in the octet A bishop, by his gaiters and his gait,...

A poem which might be included in an Anthology of Bored Verse A storekeeper? Really? No, do tell me more! Yes, I’d love to hear what it...

A traditional newspaper last ‘leader’ on the perennial subject of the weather Talk of the town today is the meteorological mayhem that...

A poem in which each word begins with the last letter of the previous word Poets sweat tears, Search heaven, Never rest, Tread despair,...

A poem in which each line’s ending is a truncated word I’ve never had a pretty bod And so I visited the doc’s And asked him for a body...

An imaginary account of a meeting between an ordinary and a famous person in which it is embarrassingly obvious that the writer is making...

An original verse fable involving animals A greyhound and a hedgehog met High on a hill near Hurst, And there it was they had a bet On...

A passage incorporating, in any order, the following words: après-ski, apron, apraxia, apricot, apropos, Capri, caprice, Capricorn,...

A poem beginning ‘Goodbye, Winter’, an opening line used by MacNeice Goodbye, Winter, The dewdrop on the crocus Like a crystal ball Comes...

A memory-assisting poem to help one remember a set of facts Most know we’re sitting on the earth near Mercury or Mars In somewhere called...

A poem in English hexameters in the form of a letter from abroad from one friend to another Dear, darling Dawn, down here in Sorrento, I...

An imaginary extract from an actual book title: ‘Sex After Death’ …So much for reincarnation. The Judeo-Christian tradition arguably...

Three clerihews about one person Chief Inspector Morse Felt little remorse For being brusque, bigoted, unbending And unbearably...

A piece of prose which omits the consonants ‘s’ and ‘t’ Why go abroad for a break when a holiday in England can be equally engaging?...

An old school song suitable for a public school founded in this century We are the new contenders, We sing to the ‘Boat-Song’ tune,...