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Sorry if I've ruffled any tweeds, they soon smooth down. Must say that 'Young British Poets' has a an air of flat contrivance: the perceptible collapse of poetry into a language of uninventive marketing is a rather shoddy fate for an art that once held its nose in the air: 'this is the way the world ends/ not with a bang but a hand-out'. -- (David) "Dave no more" Joseph Bircumshaw "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling" Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/