Why do I usually agree with Birk? 
 
Is it because his underbelly view is spot on?  His sense of politics and history near-infallible?  His logic usually irrefutable---fueled by and filtered through uber-reading in poetry, arts and history?  Or that he's a consummate satirist, humourist, caricaturist, chronicler?
 
It's all of that as well as that he's the best poet in the UK.  Might be the best in the world.
 
Judy not given to OTT assertions, despite being Queen of the Nile

On 24 July 2010 18:42, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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'.

 

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