tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post8642756505006750801..comments2023-11-03T15:50:56.001+01:00Comments on POET IN RESIDENCE : The British poetry graveyardGwil Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-34373162295801503502009-10-29T12:58:10.255+01:002009-10-29T12:58:10.255+01:00Weaver,
You are right about the choice of the nat...Weaver, <br />You are right about the choice of the nation's favourite poem in the BBC poll. <br />I'm going to go on and on with this. Something is seriously wrong in the poetry world. I hadn't really realised how wrong, how bad, it was until fairly recently. Who in GB reads Jospeh Brodsky, Allen Ginsberg, Wallace Stevens etc.?<br />Best,<br />GwilymGwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-46357957437495932442009-10-28T19:36:24.514+01:002009-10-28T19:36:24.514+01:00I think the same would happen if a poll were to be...I think the same would happen if a poll were to be taken on the nation's faovurite classical music and the nation's favourite painting. There is always suspicion about living creative artists I think. One member of my writing group was astonished at one of my poems because a) it didn't rhyme and b) I hadn't started each line with a capital letter.<br />Also, unless you are really interested, you tend to have grown up with the "old" stuff and for present day poets you have to go out and find the book.<br />Doesn't excuse it I know. But I have a feeling that the favourite poem was Kipling's If. If that is so then I don't think much collectively of "the nation."The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.com