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Originally Posted by Janet Kenny
John, unless life has changed a great deal since I lived there (and I think it has) "Radio Times" is/was read by most people who own a TV set or a radio. True they might skip the poem but it will be lying about in a great many UK homes, or would have lain about in my London days.
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...which is precisely the problem.
The poem that lies around in many UK homes is a scrap of drivel I'd have scolded a
child for writing. And yet THIS is what people will associate with modern poetry, because it is the most readily available to them. This is why better poetry (as subjective of a term that is) doesn't get out there: crap like this in a large publication gives the average layman the false impression that this is what is considered "high quality poetry" these days. And since that person ALSO thinks it's twaddle, much like most of the poetry community, he says to himself, "Well, this poetry stuff clearly isn't for me." Thanks Carol. Thanks
Radio Times.
There are far too many soapboxes out there for one so flimsy as this to be the most accessible.
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