It’s 227 years since the birth of Thomas Hood and 181 since his death, milestones really no more arbitrary than the conventional commemorative round numbers. This genius of the light and not so light if ever there was one would no doubt find today’s world full of topics, even the T-word, to fuel his funny-punny flights.
You are therefore invited to follow in his footsteps and distinctive veins in up to 16 lines by 20th August, identified as for Competition 74, but will be let off from producing comic designs for woodcut reproduction to accompany them.
You’re right, of course, this is A. C.
In bronze now (harbourside Torquay)
My shiny bits re-waxed – at last! –
Since I appeared four issues past.
I’m here to tell you there’s no more
Of LUPO Seventy plus Four
But Seventy plus Five will run
When summer ends, September 1.