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While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of ‘difficult’ poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there’s room for ‘difficult’ poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won’t be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

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Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there’s been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived… Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

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Americans have this patrician attitude that they have a God-given right to produce these boring newspapers and not be challenged to do it. ‘The New York Times’ really thinks it’s the BBC.

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April 21, 2024

Americans have this patrician attitude that they have a God-given right to produce these boring newspapers and not be challenged to do it. ‘The New York Times’ really thinks it’s the BBC.

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April 21, 2024

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there’s been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived… Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

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