PPPC: Basham Went to Hospital and Ndiaye Went Home

Andrew Senior returns with a new instalment of the once consequentially overlooked Pukka Pie Poetry Corner.

Andrew Senior

It has been some time since the Puk-Pi-Po-Co was featured in The Pinch, and for that, I am truly sorry. I did submit a poem last summer, specifically written to be published in the run-up to the start of the season, but the editor overlooked it in their (his) inbox and then the moment passed.

A shame really because that poem contained such …