Although, like most, I can often make off the cuff remarks about this
or that, I do hesitate to +seriously+ make big pronouncements (don't
laugh) but I would (nervously) propose this:
that in the English language the last two decades have seen the
greatest production of ersatz poetry in the known history of human
civilization. I can imagine that more bad poetry has been written and
published in English in these years than that of the combined total of
all other cultures that have ever existed.
It's a humbling thought. What it is to live in such great days.
Tsunami.
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David Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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