11 NOVEMBER 2000, Page 35

Poetic wannabes

From David and Solomon Ben Israel Sir: We are two Jewish kids — well, father and son, actually — who write poetry in our spare time. We would like to submit some stuff to your magazine, but we hear that you take only poetry that rhymes and scans; in fact, you say it isn't poetry if it doesn't, and ours doesn't.

If you are still interested, one of us has written a whole book, called Psalms, and the lad has written a highly erotic poem called Song of Songs, which should go down well in these liberal times.

Please let us know.

David and Solomon Ben Israel,

c/o Warren Durrant, Hoylake, Mersey