Coupled with the poet laureate wingeing in the Guardian about his difficulty
with the appointment which he didn't have the foresight to see beforehand
(or, maybe, his agent pushed him into it) and, though I don't doubt the
genuineness of his writing, he may be fogged by the cosy doldrums of
'mainstream' -
a prejudice which aligns me with the pitfall of a snobbery of its own from
so-called innovative writers.
At the risk of being boring, I think there's room for all kinds and what
excites me may not excite other poets and vice-versa,
Tilla
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