To link Tzara to Hughes is blatantly opportunistic and nonsensical,
couldn't imagine wider poles. You think Tzara would have given
overbearing and ticketed lessons in poetry to school kids? As for the
precious laureateship, it's nothing but a condemnation to mediocrity,
demoted even below its potentially petty political significance. Now that
poets aren't patronised at court, a laureate is simply a
non-controversial, sufficiently 'provincial' spokesperson, the spectre of
a collapsed and risible tradition. This was the case even by the early
18th century - who cares about Colly Cibber other than as a caricature in
the Dunciad? Who'll the next laureate be? G.Maxwell?
Nobel Prize is little more, being dished out according to purely political
negotiations and world-reconciling cultural patronages. Why didn't they
give it to Joyce? Too many swear words? Why Heaney?
Protagonistically Irish?
big and muscular indeed, and soiled with the dirt of a real lived England
keston.
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