Lucy Vickery

T.S. Eliot goes to Glastonbury

‘Barefoot women come and go/ Talking of bands I do not know…’ [Shutterstock] 
issue 18 July 2020

In Competition No. 3157 you were invited to describe a visit to Glastonbury or Glyndebourne in the style of an author of your choice.

Highlights in an especially hotly contested week — oh, for more space! — were Timothy Clegg’s John Masefield, R.M. Goddard’s John Cooper Clarke, John Mounsey’s Evelyn Waugh, Hugh King’s Edward Gibbon, Anthony Bevan’s Rev.

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