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It's a fair cop: bookshop files poetry with whodunnits

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Could this be a reference to poetry’s recent plagiarism scandals? Spotted on a section in the award-winning bookshop Dulwich Books in West Dulwich, south-east London, the joint heading: “Crime / Poetry” …  Who says rhyme doesn't pay? 

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M.C. Newberry

Wed 14th Sep 2016 12:44

Rhyme doesn't pay in competition,
No matter what the erudition ;
There's another sort of PC
That plods with the prose
And sets it free.

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