Reposted by Tim Atkin MW
New from me on @timatkinmw.bsky.social’s website: Raising standards: how do you make a #wine region’s reputation - or regain it? Tinkering with the appellation rulebook might not get you very far. I look at Muscadet, Soave, Montpeyroux and Cava timatkin.com/raising-stan...
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Raising Standards – Tim Atkin – Master of Wine
![This is One of Those Poems without any Rhymes
This is one of those poems
without any rhymes,
the sort of thing you might read
in the Telegraph or Time[crossed out] Guardian.
For, as proper poets know,
rhyme’s deleterious
and only gets in the way
when you’re trying to be serious[crossed out] profound.
It’s childish and cloying,
simplistic and singsong
to bat rhymes back and forth
like some dull game of ping pong[crossed out] table tennis.
To the literary critic
it will cause great affront,
which will make you resent them
and think them a snob.
This is also one of those poems
which looks like it might go on to say something insightful
about the human condition
but then just kind of ends.
Brian Bilston](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3hptt3d3jvwahhnl3jvsycc2/bafkreida2kryu3mhlvnx2ppdhgowwwe22v42zw2j5qgwsqp3ojlhqwfy4q)
