Ha, ha, I was a little uncharacteristically kind toward the poem. The truth is, there are some amusing passages, but, yes, by and large, the poem is quite terribly made.
Iannucci is not the first to attempt to turn Covid into poetry, who can forget David Hare's god awful prose rant under the name "poem" about Boris Johnson. It seems to me that these men are treating poetry with less of the intelligence they put into their other "art".
But the Death of Stalin is a marvellous film.
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