'As a general rule, poets don't have much time for administration and its discontents and Alan Wearne, the award winning author of among other narrative poems,
The Nightmarkets and
The Lovemakers, runs pretty much true to poetic form. Referring to the mission statement of his brain child, Grand Parade Poets, he concedes parenthetically that 'mission statement' is a 'dreadful term', but quotes it anyway.'
(Introduction)