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I saw a small slice of footage on the nightly news re: young people against poetry. My immediate reaction was...gawd, what next. A plane with a banner ...Poetry Wrecks Lives (I think)...flew over the BWF and three young people - one with a blue bucket on his head - sat on the steps of the Art Gallery precinct staring out mournfully at the Brisbane river. Just another day without a fishing rod I guess. Clayton William Fox wrote: > does anyone know which poets are featuring at Brisbane writer's festival? > frankly i have no idea, but these 'young people', champions of the rap/hip > hop cause, are being a tad hypocritical, because a lot of rap/hip hop songs > preach elitism - involving clans, gangs, mobs. that said, i don't deny the > poetry of that kind of music...but i think these young peeps are > overstepping the mark. i want to know how many people in Brisbane actually > read poetry...under 5% of the population? i don't know how that can > constitute a cultural divide. > > as for rage against the machine; their music - especially in tandem with > their music videos - is as powerful as any good poem. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%