John must wait for 14 by 14 to come out to see Party Frock, as the publication is very clear that submissions must not have been published elswhere, including personal websites.
Actually when I come to think of it, my very first success (1991) was a sonnet written 'to order' for a themed BBC Radio 4 competition - mostly written in my head in the bath, I recall - but nonetheless what normally gets a poem going for me is a line, half line or phrase that somehow enters my head and which is the grit that irritates until it grows to be a pearl (perfectly formed or misshapen, as the case may be). When faced with 'writing to order' I still need that first piece of grit to come unannounced; I can work hard at the rest, but I can't find the grit by force of will.
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