Just as an aside - Pam Ayres was a writer of comic doggerel who was enormously popular in Britain in the late 70s, mainly due to her reading of the poems in a broad Oxfordshire accent.
Patience Strong writes 'inspirational' verses which, despite being rhymed and metred, are usually written out as prose. Very popular on calendars and tea-towels the length and breadth of Britain.
As a further aside to this aside, when he was compiling the Oxford Book of 20th Century Verse, Larkin seriously considered including something by Patience Strong. Can't remember what he said about it - something about her poetry being 'honest' - but I think it was more mischief than anything else.
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