Presented by Henry Normal, the nervous compère from Channel 4’s Packet of Three (“Thank you.  You’re very kind.  In fact, you’re more than kind…  You’re patronising”), this was recorded before a live audience and purported to be an encyclopaedic guide to the art of versification.  Normal’s sometimes genuinely hesitant chat was punctuated with readings (not always in a comic vein) and guest spots from performance poets including John Hegley and Attila the Stockbroker.