[New-Poetry] Queen's English Society Demands Rhyme and Metre

[David Bircumshaw]

The story also made the BBC Radio 4's news programmes, with Michael 
Schmidt and someone from the Queen's English Society arguing it out 
nationwide on the prime time air.

(I must note that the QES shoots itself in its own (formal) foot by 
including rhyme as a necessary qualification for anything to be called 
poetry. Its amusing to see Motion and Schmidt (of all people) cast in 
the role of subversives though (pun intended) )

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