When Battling With Rival Poets

When Battling With Rival Poets is a story written by Peter Burnett and fisrt published online in Product Magazine in 2016. The story, written in a telegraphic form of English, highlighting elements of hip-hop, tells of an award winning poet who celebrates winning such an award with a meal in a restaurant, only to be interrupted by other poets who wish to fight him.

Satire?

The satirical element of When Battling With Rival Poets is contained in the increasingly large crossover area between poetry and hip-hop; indeed it is in hip-hop that poets (or rappers) are known to compete with each other in what are termed 'battles'.

Whether this satirical element is clear or not is somewhat lost in Burnett's prose style, which at times veers so far from its telegraphic-English origins as to lose both sense and implication.