As president of the Society For Real Architectural Poetry, I can tell you we were totally gutted about that chuntering bag of bollocks written to celebrate 175 Glorious Years of the RIPBA. Andrew 'Frozen' Motion may be the Poet Laureate. That doesn't excuse ancient eyes peering from cave mouths, dream-hardening sunsets etc. Maybe he was on some literary PFI contract, part of a corporate initiative to put metaphor at the heart of the celebration process. This week the Society launches a counter-offensive with a competition for poetry that rhymes and scans properly. Limericks would be ideal. Entries are already flooding in, along with suggestions on how the institute should REALLY be marking its 175 th anniversary.
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