Come, come, Michael. What do you know about the Guardian? Or any English newspapers, come to that. The Guardian ran a campaign for Armitage not because he was a good poet, but because he was ENGLISH and not (aargh!) American i.e. a bastion of all that's wicked in the world.
I do not need views attributed to me chaps. I don't think Soyinka is primarily a poet, but a playwright. However, so was Shakespeare. . I can only ssure you that his blackness is irrelevant to me. But of course we Tories are all anti-black, aren't we? Of course we are. Not that I voted Tory at the last election, but hell, I SHOULD have done, shouldn't I?
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