The Lyre's Most Looked At 2011

1. Obituary for R.F. Langley
 
‘It is probably 404 years since Hamlet first said, “The rest is silence”’

2. To the Poetry Society in Crisis 

'The names... are put in not out of malice or satire but merely for their euphony' (Sir John Betjeman)

3. News Flash: J.H. Prynne Writes Poem of Lifetime, Calls it 'Kazoo Dreamboats'

*JESUS H. CHRIST*

4. He Who Smelt It

'Blogs are still split between responsible, informative and entertaining sites... and too many anonymous others which resemble farty wee boys' gang-huts' (Don Pétomane)

5. Sacred Church

'The Lyre's public... believes itself superior to the rest of the middle class... for precisely this reason that it believes itself to possess culture' (The T.S. Eliot)

6. Backwards Together

'Sean O’Brien is no Forward bridesmaid, but a rather experienced bride'

7. An Open Letter to the LRB

'Burt, we believe, has hit the coffee table on the head'

8. Draught of Vintage

'The muted brilliance of autumn leaves
Me cold'

(A Poet)
 
9. No Success Like Failure

'Seemingly endlessly... resonant... childhood' (Success Kid)

10. The Republic of Letters

'Shame on the poets' (The Lyre)