Actually my point was quite serious, most young people get their poetry through songs, not books. If you check out Julie's link or my suggestion, these two poets are performance artists, Julie's a rapper, mine Kate Tempest, a performance poet who memorizes all her poems and wows them around the world.
The media has changed and slim volumes of verse are not going to make it in the future and are not making it now. The idea that this is because poetry is an elite art that only certain people can understand is bunkum. Poets have been expecting the public to keep coming back to an art form that hasn't changed since the invention of the printing press, any young poet starting out would be well advised to remember that poetry started before books, it was recited and sung and not read and the new media are allowing that to happen again to a mass audience.
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