Bookplanet: Charles and Camilla await wedding poem from poet laureate

'Appraising poet laureate Andrew Motion in The Daily Telegraph, the poet Craig Raine allowed that he had written some "perfectly creditable" laureate poems. Mr. Raine said, though, that he sympathized with the laureate's enforced inoffensiveness. "Good taste is the enemy of literature," he wrote, imagining what might happen if Mr. Motion could let reality, rather than discretion, be his guiding force. Referring to two of the many royal scandals that seem to cry out for comment by an anti-laureate, Mr. Raine wrote: "It isn't that I'd like laureate poems entitled, 'On the Occasion of James Hewitt Visiting Princess Diana for the Purpose of Consolation,' or 'Imagine Being a Tampax: Intimate Thoughts on the Mobile Phone. Well, maybe I would." More here. I dedicate this rhyme to the couple:
No matter what may be implied
by all our loyal scribbling hacks
Though you are now at last my bride
I still remain your loving tampax.