Songs Unheard: and ninety-nine other short poems

Dan Dobson offers a contemporary view of life in short poems that hark back to earlier, traditional approaches to rhyme and scansion. He is realistic about the challenges facing "all the folk who scribble verse" (Calculation, page 2) but likes to recall the advice once given by Ezra Pound in a letter to a younger poet: "If a man writes six good lines he is immortal ... isnt that worth trying for?"