Poetry needs readers from beyond its bubble. It's got to engage with stuff that might not seem "poetic", reaching out to people who think poems are irrelevant to their lives. That was my aim when writing my sequence Starting Eleven - Aldershot F.C. Footballers of the 1980s, which is featured today on Wild Court (see here).
This, I'm afraid, is utterly depressing and terrifying in equal measure.
I'm used, like any other birdwatcher, to reading about worrying declines in
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