This is something readers of his verse have long been conscious of.
Summed up memorably by WH Auden in his verse Night Mail, cruelly misquoted above, the TPO made its first journey in 1838 from London to the Midlands.
An acquaintance recalled seeing him at a writers' conference which was attended by Allen Ginsberg, a self-publicising poet who declaimed his verse accompanied by an accordion he usually carried.
His nonsense verse came ranked above John Hegley's Malcolm and Roger McGough's Cake.
Spike Milligan has come top in a poll of the UK's favourite comic poems with his nonsense verse On The Ning Nang Nong.
He is a published poet with 15 volumes of verse to his name.
Tamer Abuoglu, the last in a line of butchers stretching back seven generations, has a sensitive side - he's also a published poet with fifteen volumes of verse to his name.
The project to which he committed most of the latter part of his career, the revival of verse drama, was a failure.
Brown is a New Hampshire resident spending the week in New York to promote "Inferno, " a return to his beloved continent and a chance, he hopes, to interest readers in the classic 14th century journey in verse by Dante that provides the title for his new novel.
Mr. Sheik's music softens and sentimentalizes the script, and he has trouble with the vigorous rhythms of Auden's verse, but at their best his plaintive songs are dramatically effective.
Lerner, a poet in his early thirties who has written three books of verse, is interested in whether words truly belong to us.
The late Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes, has won the TS Eliot prize for his work, Birthday Letters, a personal collection of verse letters to former wife and poet Sylvia Plath.
An impressive feature of the exhibition is its theater-pod, where visitors are immersed in the sound of Churchill's voice, which accompanies the verse-form text as it appeared in his copy and documentary photographs on screens to the left and right.
At eight he was writing formal French verse as well as memorising the intricate Russian fairytales which his devoted serf nanny told him.
After his arrest in 2001, "lurid and demonic" artwork and verse, some depicting the death of Miss Halstead, were found in north London home, along with a machete and a garrotte made from bamboo and wire.
His insistent rhymes and metres got on the nerves of those who thought only free verse or broken rhythms could express the modern muse.
Certainly, he was a divided soul who lived for the greater part of his life in the country, set apart from the world, musing, in verse, on the desirability or otherwise of rustic retirement how much freedom did it really represent?
Her brother, Austin, and his wife, Susan, lived right next door, and with Sue she regularly shared much of her verse.
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