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The State of English Poetry 2022
January 11th 2022 I passed on a Guardian poetry article to my friend David Cooke, who is a published poet. Dave is old school; he adores the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin and early Ted Hughes. For Dave, poetry is all about craftsmanship - selecting the right words and putting them in the right order. It has little to do with content and nothing at all to do with the personality of the poet. Dave is cynical
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