Take a meteor shower
First of all, an abject apology. I had promised, and fully intended, to publish the results of the "Top 20" comp winners from 2008 this week, but owing to the New Statesman's office move, various things were left undone - not least the setting up of the "grid" on the comp page into which I insert all your scores. Be patient, dear hearts! You will just have to wait for another week to know your overall rankings.
This week, the winners get £15 each, except for the doubletons, who get a tenner each, and the one singleton, who gets a £5 book token. In addition, the Tesco vouchers go to Derek Morgan for making me laugh.
Percy Bysshe Shelley: "Birds Will Be Birds" ("To a Skylark")
W B Yeats: "I'm Outta Here!" ("The Lake Isle of Innisfree")
John O'Byrne
Oliver Goldsmith: "Weekenders!" ("The Deserted Village")
Edward Thomas: "This Train Journey Will Now Continue by Bus" ("Adlestrop")
W H Auden: "Remember Early Morning Post?" ("Night Mail")
Derek Morgan
T S Eliot: "Sayonara Sahara" ("The Waste Land")
Matthew Arnold: "Change the Channel" ("Dover Beach")
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Wrecks But Were Afraid to Ask" ("The Wreck of the Deutschland")
W H Auden: "Trainspotting" ("Night Mail")
William Wordsworth: "Billy Liar, Part One" (The Prelude)
Bill Greenwell
Lewis Carroll: "Frabjous Gimbling in the Borogroves" ("Jabberwocky")
Andrew Marvell: "Let's Have at It, Honey; Time's a-Wastin'" ("To His Coy Mistress")
Mae Scanlan
Robert Frost: "Snow's Pretty, But I Can't Stop" ("Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening")
Philip Larkin: "Doomed, We're All Doomed" ("Toads Revisited")
G?M?Davis
Robert Browning: "Pay the Piper!" ("The Pied Piper of Hamlyn")
J Seery
Thomas Wyatt: "She's Just Not That Into Me" ("They Flee from Me . . .")
Matthew Arnold: "The God Confusion" ("Dover Beach")
Pamela Dow
No 4065 Toil and trouble
Set by J Seery
How do bad guys get to the top in business? Richard Olivier, son of Sir Laurence, decided to develop a leadership workshop to answer that question using Macbeth as his set text. Believing Macbeth could also work for bankers, the former actor ran a version of his workshop during this year's World Economic Forum at Davos. What has the play to tell the banking world about the current global economic crisis?
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