It IS because they are all lefties. Also because they are uncultured and ignorant. Not YOU of course, Vicky. The best English poets since 1950 are self-evidently, Larkin, Betjeman, Wendy, Ann Drysdale and me. Are you with me so far? All of us rhymers and Daily Telegraph rustlers. Except perhaps for Ann. I imagine she rustles the South Wales Argus or whatever it is. However she can speak (probably gnomically) for herself. There is also the case of the divine Sophie Hannah who glories in her Comprehensive schooling and is now incredibly rich through the writing of psychological detective stories which are much harder to read than her poems. I am, however, a fan. I wonder where she sends her children to school?
I'm working on that poem. The difficult word is Luger. Do they still have Lugers or is it a historical gun, belonging to the German Officers who crossed the Rhine. Did we not have Brownings in them days?
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