Introduction

Kay Ryan is an American poet who Frank Skinner discovered not that long ago actually in the last year. She uses a thing that she calls recombinant rhyme, rhymes that are sort of redistributed occasionally Occasionally you'll get an end rhyme when she which making a big big final point but usually they come in the middle of lines and creep up on you out of nowhere. The first poem Frank Skinner reads this week is we are building the ship as we sail it.