"THERE ARE those for whom being a poet is, to paraphrase Angela Carr’s fine poem ‘Occupied’, “the new black”.
If you are young and fit, all you need do is write long poems about
what is going on at street level and wave your arms around when you read
them.
If you are too weather beaten to pull that
off, then find a major issue – cultural or political – and pretend to
be anguished about it. The poses adopted may change but the emptiness
inside remains. Such types are useful, though, because their prevalence
enables one to immediately recognise the real thing, when one sees it."
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