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).
(I begin the day by playing a song, Farewell, Farewell, written by Richard
Thompson, aged 20, in 1969, which somehow resonates with the state of the
world ...
Thanks for picking my home team. But why did you pick on them?
ReplyDeleteBecause they're my home team too, Rodney. I'm from Farnham.
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