Prize Poem Competition

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 50, 27 June 1930, Page 37

Prize Poem Competition

[THs prize of half a guinea this week is awhrded to John Storin, whom we congratulate upon the skill of his phraseology and the "versatility of his muse, exeriplified in the musical imaginative "Cradle Song’? Very close :to it. in literary merit, though.not, quite so completely ‘rounded off, is the "Hventide" of.J.R., the grave arid dignified beauty of \whose work is to be comimerided. In entirely different vein, we appreciated the quaint humanity: of "Phui’s" contribution, in which a dainty’ lady speaks her mind to plodding partner, whom with his: endless talk of "shop" she finds "a most prodigious dull" dog, and we can’t help hoping Benedict will mend his ways and. take his pretty, preaching spouse to the pictures for which she confesses a penchant. ~ ‘ ead "Niobe," by no means all tears, sends some verse intended t be very funny indeed, but somehow it isn’t: . RG. contributes a lay ‘of a pretty, prancing dicky-bird, wherein perky is placed in juxtaposition with jerky. he rhynie is unquestionable, but. something more than obvious jingle is nee ed, as is demonstrated by study of the poets, éven the minor ones. . "Hrancesea": Wxtremely facile. Too many words and not enough thought in your ambitious ode to the elements, "Jonathan" unsuccessfully tries his hand at a Shavian topic. Undoubtedly he has a flair for paradoxical expression, which would benefit by moré extensive perusal of the plays of "the immortal Bernard" himself.