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Oh Tilla, you are always so fair. I have no sympathy with Motion - he is an intelligent man so he must have known full-well what the job would entail and what the expectations would be. He took the job out of ego. Abolish the post. Abolish the crown. Abolish Mondays. Abolish Abolish Abolish. Cheers Tim On 21 Mar 2009, at 11:48, Tilla Brading wrote: > 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