Who wants a free subscription to the LRB? (Haiku contest

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So as a renewing subscriber, I get to give someone a free 1-year subscription to the London Review of Books. As I'm a postgraduate (in English), it seems that all of my friends are already subscribers. Post a haiku explaining why you want the subscription, include a real email address, and I'll write to the best one to get the relevant details. You must be a UK resident.

― gooblar (gooblar), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)

I thought that this was going to be a thread about the Little River Band.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 16:52 (twenty years ago)

why read LRB
when it has neither pictures
nor conversations?

― riddle me this... (koogs), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:12 (twenty years ago)

free stuff
goddamn I want
please send

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:25 (twenty years ago)

I'm not so bothered
but, if it is going free,
my friend would like it.

― theantmustdance (theantmustdance), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:30 (twenty years ago)

i used to subscribe
and still read it online, but
that isn't the same

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Maybe whoever wins the competition could be offended by something and then send in a haiku announcing that they are cancelling their subscription.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:53 (twenty years ago)

give one to me please
I am also in grad school
and can't afford it

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

I considered it
and think you should give it to
the poster above

― Nicholas Passant (Nicholas Passant), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 22:10 (twenty years ago)

I'm afraid I can't ignore a fellow grad student; call me predictable. Congratulations, sgs!

― gooblar (gooblar), Thursday, 30 March 2006 12:18 (twenty years ago)

guess i am too late
i will review my own books
whilst in london then

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:25 (twenty years ago)

I won something once
It was a pikachu tie
Which I never wore

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:34 (twenty years ago)

(Counting up to five
And counting up to seven
can by quite tricky)

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:35 (twenty years ago)

to rock a rhyme that's
right on time it's trick trick trick
trick trick here we go

it's tricky to rock
a rhyme that's right on time it's
tricky tricky ahhhug!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Excellent! So glad
to have made the grade. Reviews,
I anticipate!

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 30 March 2006 20:29 (twenty years ago)

On a withered twig
Lo, the crow is sitting there -
Oh, this Autumn eve!

My love's lengthened hair
Swings o'er me from Heaven's gate:
Lo! Evening's shadow!

Catch me, caress me,
Crush me! Gather a dewdrop -
Star to a system!

The rose petals fall -
The red petals of my heart -
Oh the breath of love!

Oh how bitter
Is the White Poppy Death;
There are no more dreams of love.

The pale moth
Trembles with the white moonlight;
Thus my heart trembles with love.

― Kwaw Li Ya, Thursday, 30 March 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

read the LRB
personals section it is
really quite funny

― badg (badg), Friday, 31 March 2006 05:02 (twenty years ago)

good stuff! a shiny
new magazine subscription
to read on the loo

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 31 March 2006 12:23 (twenty years ago)

why uk only?
not fair by long chalk oh no
*goes and 'fukks 'self* (not!:)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 31 March 2006 12:27 (twenty years ago)

congratulations
lrb meets sgs
acronymic bliss

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 31 March 2006 12:34 (twenty years ago)

I am delighted
At this fairest of results:
Sarah is a treat.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 31 March 2006 12:34 (twenty years ago)

And I am so glad
To have sparked such production
Of random haikus!

― gooblar (gooblar), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:18 (twenty years ago)

Generosity
Engenders true happiness.
A virtuous circle!

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Markelby: the mag
is sadly rarely shiny
(unless they print Art).

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:37 (twenty years ago)

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Who wants a free subscription to the LRB? (Haiku contest - UK only)