cf: Larkin and Duffy
this comparison strikes me as a kind of journalistic co-incidence creation.
The suggestion that there is some kind of common ground over a 'girl's
school' theme is just laughable. I dont know the context of the 'original'
remark, but I have heard Carol Ann, at readings and in workshops talk about
the need to avoid inflated and self-consciously poetic language. She favours
simplicity of diction...... well? I've never understood her as meaning that
she dislikes language stretched and shaped, put under pressure to create new
meanings.
We have read a lot of anger about poetry/heirarchies/camps. I am hostile to
the attempt to make CAD stand for some kind of retrograde anti-language
school. It isnt a fair reflection and it seems to me to be a misdirecting
of energy.
http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/english/sheaf/duffy.htm
http://www.geocities.com/klf67/dpoems.html
http://www.anvilpresspoetry.com/duffy.html
http://www.poem-uk.org/Poems/Carol_Ann_Duffy/carol_ann_duffy.htm
the problem with the sites is that CAD is set for GCSE and lots of teachers
like teaching her poetry (alongside Simon Armitage) so a lot of the sites
are aimed at 15/16 year olds....... these are a few that offer poems......
Liz
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