Diving back in. My question (Is there a poetry gene) was partly
rhetorical. I don't think
there's any question that everyone is capable of writing/inventing poetry.
Like Mark, Labi and many others I have spent years convincing the most
recalcitrant sceptics that if you have a language you can push the little
bugger anywhere you wish. Permission granted and the gentlest will kick
the hell out of it, the hardest caress it like a newborn. Some touching
stuff, sometimes brilliant ...but rarely. But we know that. But. But.
What's more interesting is that giving everyone can do it some simply
don't want to (fair enough) and some are positively hostile (now that IS
interesting) and some, like us lot, would probably be slammed up if we
didn't do it. With regard to my nephew's poem (glad you liked it Ian) it
wasn't the fact that he had written a poem but the level of formal
sophistication
employed in the poem, the word play, line breaks etc. made me think.
Maybe just a flash in the pan. But certainly not nurture. No way.
Geraldine
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