Quiz: Which Politician Wrote These Lines of Poetry?
Exciting developments in one of New Zealand’s most enduring news categories: people and things getting sued by Colin Craig.
The enigmatic former Conservative Party leader has reportedly threatened angry blogster Cameron Slater with legal action over the publication of a poem what he wrote.
“In an email to the blogger,” reports the New Zealand Herald, “Craig claimed a ‘clear breach of copyright’ and asked Slater for a retraction, a written apology and $3000 per month for the display of his work to the public.”
The most remarkable thing about all of this is the possibility – even if it’s faint – that someone might make some money out of writing poetry, but my first thought was: I hope Craigles and his legal warriors don’t know that I quoted his poem during a pub quiz, held as part of LitCrawl in Wellington a couple of weeks ago.
My second thought was: why don’t I scrub down that bit of the pub quiz and post it on the popular variety website The Spinoff?
So I have. Here are some excerpts from poems. Can you pick which politician wrote which words? Good luck, quizzers!
See also Colin Craig to sue Colin Craig.
Toby Manhire
Toby Manhire is editor-at-large at The Spinoff. He loves to cast a pod, whether it's Gone By Lunchtime, At Large or Juggernaut. He is a former editor of The Spinoff and has worked as a journalist in NZ and the UK since the last millennium.
