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Here's an interesting overview of euphemisms in various cultures. I suggest we compile a list of euphemisms that are used in the poetry world.

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As one who is irredeemably of the British Bog-slasher school of self-expression, I applaud the suggestion. However, once we move into the poetry world, the dread question of Archaism is going to colour the issue, rough-hew it how we may.
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I came across a nice one this week. 'He was of the pillow-biting persuasion' but, as far as I know, it hasn't been used in a poem - yet.
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e.g.
Free verse: prose
Experimental verse: typographically-challenged prose
Performance poet: performer
Eratosphere: Murphysphere
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Nice one, Ann!

Always loved the two Ronnies. Morecambe and Wise were another good team. Smith and Jones. Laurel and Hardy, of course. Carnivalistic mismatches.

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Okay, I'll start:

These poems don't give up their meanings at first glance. (These poems are completely incomprehensible.)

There is a lot of space for the reader in these poems. (These poems are completely incomprehensible.)

I'll confess to struggling with these poems. (These poems are completely incomprehensible.)

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Haha, Duncan!

Same with, "That's... deep. Oh, yes, that's a very deep poem!" (Haven't got a ****ing clue what it means!)

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This seems relevant.

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When I worked on the South Wales Argus there was no literary editor; we shared out the review copies among the subs and used coded messages that told everyone else in the newsroom what we really thought. For instance "A great, rambling epic of a novel" meant that one hadn't actually read it.

But I did once write a review of a superb poetry collection in the form of a sonnet. The poet in question later won the T S Eliot prize.

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