Lucy Vickery

Post mortem

issue 07 May 2016

In Competition No. 2946 you were invited to supply a verse obituary of a well-known person who has died in the past year.

There’s certainly no shortage of candidates. Whether more famous people than usual are dying or whether it just seems that way I don’t know, but hardly a day goes by without one of the stars of light entertainment who provided the cultural backdrop to my formative years — Ronnie Corbett, Victoria Wood, Paul Daniels, Anne Kirkbride, Terry Wogan, Cilla Black, Keith Harris — checking into the horizontal Hilton.

Alanna Blake and Max Ross were clever and touching on Ronnie Corbett; Chris O’Carroll, Martin Parker, D.A. Prince and Brian Murdoch also deserve honourable mentions. The entries printed below net their authors £25 apiece and Max Gutmann pockets the bonus fiver.
 

Ms Harper Lee, a scribe of note,
as her first published novel wrote
To Kill a Mocking Bird — a pip.

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