Susan joined me on the show today, and we discussed this article in last Sunday's Observer: campaigners from the Queen's English Society say that before something can be called a poem, it has to meet certain standards such as having rhyme and metre.

Sounds to me like somebody's out there with a clipboard, checking poetry to see if it comes up to standard or not. Here at Seaside FM we disagree with this approach. Susan read a selection of poems, her own, and also some by Tennyson among others. Not all of them rhymed.

And if you were listening, I regaled you with this short and sweet one by Adrian Mitchell.