Lightening Gloomy Mood, Law Firm Hosts Poetic Breakfast Meeting
Lightening the mood on another day of economic gloom, a London law firm co-hosted a breakfast meeting yesterday featuring a poet and edible words on frosted cupcakes.
The Bates Wells & Braithwaite event, in anticipation of National Poetry Day today in Great Britain, was a good fit for the firm, says senior partner Stephen Lloyd. It has many clients in the arts and other creative fields, and was happy to bring Cornish poet Sally Crabtree to help brighten the work lives of attorneys and others, he tells the Lawyer.
“To add some sparkle to the day, poetic words are the only way!” writes Crabtree in an greeting-card-like ode commissioned by the legal publication in honor of Poetry Day.
The article invites readers to give poetry a try, too, prompting a number of cranky legal commenters to respond in verse. Among them, “W. Wordsworth” writes: “Roses are red, Violets are blue, This poem is terrible, But The Lawyer’s was too.”
