Knitting, the Olympics and poetry

New Poetry Society director lays out plans to grab public's attention Judith Palmer explains why knitting and the Olympics can raise poetry's profile Poetry as an Olympic sport, as a prescription service and even as a very unsual knitting pattern. These are among the eyecatching if eccentric plans of Judith Palmer, the new director of the Poetry Society, to raise the artform's profile. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/27/poetry-society-judith-palmer-scarf