[Pedro Poitevin]

What is the Sphere like? Here's a little palindromic answer:

Ten nosy men editing nitid enemy sonnet.

Any other lipogrammatic (or formal) descriptions?

Pedro

[Ed Shacklee]

Brilliant, Pedro. I confess I had to look up "nitid," though, which spellcheck would very much like to be "knitted."

Best,

Ed

[John Whitworth]

Wht a lovely word, Pedro. Your talent shines nitid. Chain mail is presumably nitid knitted armour.

[Ed Shacklee]

I wonder if it's Scottish. "It's a braw bricht nitid moonlicht nicht the nicht." At any rate, great word, and an even better anagram.

[John Whitworth]

The Sphere’s esteemed members whenever, wherever they be, pen resplendent metred verses, sweet sestets, perfect tercet, vehement sentences, les belles letters en vers. Let’s be celebrant. These clever excellent he-men, she-men, deft yet never lewd refresh.

[Martin Parker]

Subject to a final check I suspect that "Eratosphere For Poetry" is an anagram for Poor Poetry Safer There."

Oh, dear!

But maybe it is a warning of the level of criticism hurled at many of those who hoped they had written something better.