Claire, at the ever-interesting One Night Stanzas, here: http://www.readthismagazine.co.uk/onenightstanzas/
set a Literary Rhyming Slang competition and it would appear my birth locale is a bigger bonus than even I suspected, for I was one of the two winners.
My entry was as follows:
William Butler Yeats: Mates
Ezra Pound: Round (up or down, numerically)
Christina Rossetti: Confetti
Eugene O’Neill: Deal
As in the following utterly contrived situation of a man purchasing a plastic horsehoe bedecked with white ribbons in cardboard presentation box at the card stall in Romford Market.
Stallholder presents man with desired object: ‘Ows 'at? “To the Bride and Groom wiv Good Luck an’ Best Wishes”
Man: ‘Ow Much?
Stallholder: £25.99
Man: Wot?!
Stallholder: Tell yer wot. Seeing as we’re William Butlers, I’ll Ezra it dahn an’ chuck in a box a’ Christina fer free. Call it a pony.
Man: Mate, yer got yerself a Eugene. (Hands over £25). Well pleased.
You can read the other winners here:
http://www.readthismagazine.co.uk/onenightstanzas/?p=1151
I have won a copy of Lewis Young’s fantastic debut short fiction chapbook, Fabric of Society.
About which I am well pleased.
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