The BBC plays a hell of a lot of folk, not necessarily pigeon holed in Mark Radcliffe's show. Poetry therefore as a distinct art form gets far less.

I wrote a song where I was happy with the lyrics but the tune I was developing just wasn't working. A friend ran a poetry night every month in a pub nearby so I turned up (enjoyed myself more than I thought I would, being a heathen bugger) and recited my lyrics. "Would work better in a song" came the nice but critical consensus.

Am I in awe of poetry aficionados for being clever, or are "lyrics" a term of disapproval for failed poetry??

Been bugging me for years and I gave up on the song. A few couplets were dragged into subsequent songs though.