Fascinating conversation between Mark Haddon and Paul Farley in the Guardian's review section yesterday. During it Farley said something about form and the sonnet that I really relate to:

"A sonnet is experimental. You shouldn't know what the last line is going to be. Engaging with form - any form - means there's a chance you'll say something you weren't going to say ... people think the sonnet is antique, that it's dusty, but there's a reason why it's been so durable."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/03/mark-haddon-paul-farley-conversation

There are other reasons why Farley is my hero ... he takes lots of photographs, he watches birds, and he wrote a brilliant poem about he death of Sylvia Plath and the Beatles' first LP ...

Greg, I will check this out tomorrow. Thanks, as always, for enlarging my scope.