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Untitled -- Donald Monat

Guest poem sent in by Mike Lynd , who writes:
(Poem #1360) Untitled
 Lying south of sweet Northumber,
 Lands of Westmor, Rut and Cumber,
 Nottingham for forest walks,
 Durham, Derby, Lancs and Yorks,
 Leicester, Warwick, Wilts ahead,
 Fords of Here, Staff and Bed,
 Shires of Lincoln, Shrop and Ches,
 Sexes - Middle, Sus and Es!
 Worcester, Gloucester, down the Severn
 South to Somerset and Devon,
 On to Dorset, Kent and Surrey
 Passing London in a hurry.
 Berkshire Thames where Oxford punts,
 Herts or Bucks for Cambridge Hunts,
 Hants and Northants, Norfolk, Suff,
 Cornwall, Monmouth - that's enough.
-- Donald Monat
You asked for it! [Indeed - see Poem #1358 - and I'm glad I did! - martin]

Here are the old counties of England as a mnemonic by someone called Donald
Monat, who, I think, won a competition with it in the magazine, the New
Statesman.

Notes:  Rutland has now gone as has Huntingdonshire.  Americans will need to
be reminded that Warwickshire is Worrick not war-wick and that
Leicestershire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire are lester, wuster and
gloster respectively.  Derbyshire is darby and Hertfordshire is hartford.
[And Here in line 6 has two syllables, as in 'Hereford' - martin]

Best wishes,

Mike Lynd

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Anonymous said...

you've touched my heart with these
what a taste!!
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Anonymous said...

Definitely a New Statesman comp poem - it's in a book of NS puzzle winners called "Salome Dear, Not in the Fridge!". Shame I can't find my copy.

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..."Here are the old counties of England as a mnemonic by someone called Donald Monat, who, I think, won a competition with it in the magazine, the New Statesman." ... Well, that someone called Donald Monat is (I'm almost certain)my father,!!! ..and he might have a copy. Whatever he is very contactable on the web at themonatdixonline.com if anyone wants to find out. Thanking you kindly, Roz Jacobs

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