I normally glance at the Poetry Corner column in the letters pages but find most of the so-called poems unreadable.

So I was pleasantly surprised to find "The Day" by Henry Chappell in the edition of October 26.

This powerful poem was not only moving but was beautifully constructed and the metre was reminiscent of the one used by Kipling in his poem which begins, "A fool there was and he made his prayer..."

Then I read the letter from Pat Curtis of Rotherfield who had submitted it from a book of cuttings of First World War poems.

She states the poet was a porter at Bath (Spa or Green Park?) railway station and was known as the Bath Railway poet.

It is interesting to consider that such command of our beautiful language was exercised by someone who, I assume, had only a rudimentary education.

-Peter Bailey, Brighton