FAIR PLAY FOR POETRY

PADRAIC Mac CANA,

Madam, - Fair play to Mary O'Donnell for advocating fair play for poetry in your pages (February 21st). At its best poetry is the most supreme expression of the written word yet prose has taken over, making poetry and poems all but extinct in your pages. Let's give poetry a recall. Please. - Yours, etc.,

PADRAIC Mac CANA,

Killarney Street,

Dublin 1.