Rory Waterman has an excellent piece up today on the Poetry London website. Its premise is as follows:
"Rory Waterman offers a stirring op-ed on the negative effects of superficial do-goodery and inadvertent self-flattery on contemporary poetry and how such tendencies often simplify moral and intellectual complexities to the detriment of the art being produced."
His views will ruffle a few precious feathers, but that's not a bad thing when it's for the greater good of the genre. You can read his article in full here.
FHP18 MO18 GPH18 Leave My Son Alone I sat in your caravan, You poured me
some tea. Told me “Hold out your hand Let’s see what I can see.” You set it
back d...
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