Author's Note

Inspiration

Author's Note arose from a warning I used to give when I read poetry at the Ritz Acoustic Club open mic night, along the lines of

I'm reading tonight under strict Poetry Society guidelines, which means that at least one of the poems isn't permitted to rhyme

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the point being that there is still a sharp divide between the tiny few of us who read and write poetry and the vast majority out there who don't - or alternatively between those of us who are prepared to acknowledge that poetry need not rhyme and those of us who would prefer that it did.