Yes, but what is the substance of such predictions?
I wouldn't trust Clive James.
I see no sign of verse dying; and bad verse is on the increase.
20 or 30 years ago there was a chap would turn up to a reading series I
attended occasionally, and he would read the paper throughout. Nor was he
accompanying a friend or spouse as such; he arrived in various groupings
and alone. It was a place to be seen (and perhaps as a result but I have no
evidence it was only worth going regularly.
Some sell books because they are on the A-level list; others because they
are talked about
On 11 September 2016 at 10:29, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
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> Well, we kind of do this on poetryetc, Max
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> Bill
>
> On Sunday, 11 September 2016, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > If predictions are correct about verse being a dying art, those of us who
> > persist in writing it would probably be wise to forget altogether about
> > getting published, and just send our latest poem to each other as an
> email.
> > Each of us would have a list of names, not all of them fools. It would
> be a
> > low-profile solution, however, and not many poets would get as famous as
> > Seamus Heaney, who, in Bellaghy, is about to have a whole memorial
> building
> > opened in his honour, with a coffee bar.
> >
> > ://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/sep/10/clive-james-
> > new-book-box-sets
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