Thanks again to everyone for their contributions to this thread. They live up to the title, I would say. Here's a
link to one by Tony Harrison, probably our strongest political poet at the moment. The lay-out by
The Guardian is a little curious. The opening paragraphs are in fact rhyming stanzas; I don't know whether they were deliberately made to look like prose by the paper to entice readers in. In his
Collected Poems they are laid out as verse (the stanza form of Gray's "Elegy"). There is a prose passage in the middle of the poem, which is a letter by Thomas Gray refusing the laureateship for reasons which Harrison makes his own.