N COMPETITION No 305 you were invited to write a poem called . I liked Charles Owen’s description of the cock or rooster as ‘Hot hacksaw-headed, braggart-breasted,/ Liveried in flame’. Wally Smith was right to call ‘A jay’s call like a block and tackle’. Dorothy Pope addressed a ‘spry robin on your self-entitled post’. Finlay Campbell considered the man for whom ‘Their din may well induce
