Poetry

Poetry Reading

I don’t have anything against poetry or editors. It’s the public that pisses me off they don’t buy it. There are some who can’t not write the stuff poor buggers. And others say they write only for themselves I don’t buy that. Surely everyone writes to be heard poets included. And this new electronic media is no way the saviour. Nothing is less suited to the ice screen than poetry. Then rap is the new poetry, perhaps? That’s crap. Poetry is what it always was, it just doesn’t rhyme as much and poets must just accept what comes their way.…

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