I'm trying to read it but am having difficulty keeping a straight face at such as:
"Many poets, dodging between
welfare and dead-end jobs, cultivate a hand-me-down appearance that
establishes street cred but does nothing to inspire confidence in the
larger world. "
!!! This is of course true. I was at a mass gathering recently in London and you should have seen them - especially JH Prynne and Peter Riley - Chaplinesque would be the polite term :)
And then we have:
'Moreover, as poetry is the most severely literary of the
arts, it does not translate readily to films, TV programmes or mini-series'
at which point I have been unable to go further? Have you seen the film of the sonnet. Nah, but I heard Tanka did 37 episodes before they cut it (Ed Reardon fans might like that)
best
david
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