In Competition No. 2791 you were invited to provide a poem in praise of a country other than the United Kingdom.
Thanks to John Whitworth, who suggested the topic. It generated a wave of love-thy-neighbourliness, albeit with an undercurrent of mischief, that is a welcome antidote to the prevailing mood of xenophobia.
I liked Ray Kelley’s hymn to Australia — ‘Oz, Oz, glorious Oz,/ Got-the-lot country if ever there was!’ — and was equally impressed by Nigel Mace, Rob Stuart and Charles Curran. The winners, below, earn £25. Basil Ransome-Davies takes £30.
Michael Myers Leslie Nielsen
Gotta love ’em, haven’t you?
Raymond Burr and Leonard Cohen
David Cronenberg woo-hoo.
Céline Dion Joni Mitchell
Donald Sutherland Lorne Green
Not forgetting Mary Pickford
Icons of the silver screen
Also Fay Wray and Jim Carrey
Gorgeous Susan Sarandon
(Cut some slack for William Shatner)
KD Lang …I could go on.
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