Locked away in WOL’s genetic engineering laboratories, the infamous Dr. Van Kinston has been experimenting with the DNA of famous poets past and present and has had some startling if disturbing results. In this feature his creations have been ‘reborn’ for all to see. Each amazing entity is a complex scientific merging of two different individuals and this new creation has developed poetic powers gleaned from its twin origins.

By examining both pictures and words, can you identify the two unfortunate poets upon whom Dr Van Kingston has been experimenting?

Answers by email to his assistant winston@writeoutloud.net

Maybe you could even come up with more ‘mergings’ of text from the two poets featured?

This months answer and any correct entries and new poems will feature in next months features along with another fascinating unlikely twin!

Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth,

A hundred feet long in their world.

When I think of the lollies I licked,

Of submarine delicacy and horror

To pass up gobstoppers,
Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin.

And the liquorice allsorts I picked,

In ponds, under the heat-struck lily pads-
My toothbrush was hairless

The jaws' hooked clamp and fangs
But up-and-down brushin'
And pokin' and fussin'
The gills kneading quietly, and the pectorals