Part of the series 'Celebrities Today in Caricature: prints by Mark Wayner, 1931-43', this cartoon satirises two well-known poets of the era: (on the left) John Drinkwater (1882-1937) and (on the right) Edith Sitwell (1887-1964): Hampstead resident John Drinkwater was part of Edward Marsh’s Georgian poets’ circle. Possibly prompted by Marsh, in 1915 he visited Mark Gertler’s studio and purchased, for £5, his preparatory Study of heads for his anti-war painting Merry-Go-Round. Edith Sitwell was editor of the poetry anthology 'Wheels' (1916-21), and together with her brothers, Obsert and Sacheverell, a prominent patron and promoter of the arts. The figure in the background has been tentatively identified as Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936).