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Sandford Lyne is a published poet. His work has appeared in a number of prestigious journals. He comes across as a nice person. He reckons that since 1983, he has thought poetry to over 57,000 people. He’s had cancer surgery and chemotherapy. For such reasons alone, I want to like his book… It’s titled: Writing poetry from the inside out. His publishers sent it to me…. They asked if perhaps I might like to review it and another book in exchange for perhaps listing them as recommended reading... And, of course, naturally I took the books…I’ll never say no to books…But in fact, the whole thing is an effusion of indigestible patronising schmaltz. What might come across ok in a classroom, is a mess on paper. Lyne’s book is about finding the poet inside you. I didn’t find one. I found an arsonist.