The Oldie

TESSA CASTRO

IN COMPETITION No 293 you were invited to imagine a vegetable at the heart of a murder and write a poem on it, called Vegetable Love.

Max Ross’s narrator, reasonably enough, killed his stepmother for making him eat onions. It is curious that the carrot was often the criminal or the instrument, though for Basil Ransome-Davies it was the arsenic in the

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