The article is great (I agree with Jennifer- that's pretty much what my children say/do too).
Although I don't think the UK ever had the 'formal poetry wars' to the extent of the US, I do think 'poetry' was seen as a kind of alienating modernist self-centred thing here (perhaps the opposite of the US) and it feels like this is changing a bit.
Not much evidence beyond the local, but I have more young students (FE students 16-19) attend occasional workshops and tell me they love poetry (& their tastes are international - Emily Dickinson pops up more than a few times) whereas before COVID, 'I love poetry' was limited to a kind of 'old guard' of 'we are the poets and you are not allowed in to our very specific group'.
I've just realised, in writing this - the younger poets like reading/sharing their favourite poets. The older ones seemed to like writing poetry more.
Sarah-Jane
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