Money is a kind of poetry, said - was it Wallace Stevens? Anyway, a piece
in The Guardian today which claims, among other things, "Poets would surely
forsake any prize money for the sake of just one timelessly memorable poem."
If it wasn't a false choice (because it is, in terms that are rather suss) I
would say, it depends how broke said poet is...
Not only that, but poets need "translators". Anyway, for the curious...
http://books.guardian.co.uk/forwardprize2005/story/0,16299,1585250,00.html
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Alison Croggon
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