tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16166950.post1801601883537324139..comments2024-01-23T18:21:17.066+00:00Comments on Surroundings: Poet Laureate: Carol Ann DuffyRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17046788730174617923noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16166950.post-81658657593710812502009-05-05T00:16:00.000+01:002009-05-05T00:16:00.000+01:00Yes, entirely agree with Rob that the Poet Laureat...Yes, entirely agree with Rob that the Poet Laureate's tenure should be shorter. What about the USA's system of a year? That would open a few doors, and give the reading public a much wider experience of poetry.<br /><br />As I understand it, the USA's laureate can choose how much public work they do, which also opens the door to writers of differing temperaments and circumstances; recluses not excluded!Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09857305142639989126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16166950.post-14706328645634486162009-05-03T20:01:00.000+01:002009-05-03T20:01:00.000+01:00This comment is pure speculative discourse, and th...This comment is pure speculative discourse, and the narrator is not *I*, but an experimental voice deployed for the purpose of conducting an intellectually creative dialogue-with-self, which will hopefully bring to a wider audience the work.. <br /><br />"..i am involved in as a bore with strong opinions on this topic>"<br /><br />"Oh aye, and why's that then div?"<br /><br />"Well, i feel that all the talk about laureateship is a hugely successful bit of smoke and mirrors, which (unconsciously perhaps) diverts attention from the more pertinent political implications of this post."<br /><br />"Yeah, but who cares? The working class got sold out when Deggsie Hatton sent the taxis round with the redundancy notices and they proved themself just as bad as the toffs. Stick to the point, politics aside, what will the poetry be like?"<br /><br />"I dunno, maybe Duffy is one of those working class champions who turn toffie as time goes by. Her poems are in the mode of Larkin who seems to be the template."<br /><br />"In what sense dickhead?"<br /><br />"Well Larkin was the first to make *fucking* a legitimate poetic word, and now you can't turn sideways with the fuckers fuckin this and fuck me that, as though Barabra Cartland were to start writing hard core porn as romance."<br /><br />"I dunno you fick, there's arguments all ways, but what's wrong wioth *fucking?*"<br /><br />"I dunno, but maybe her poetry will turn into celebrating the millionairwe who gives the 5 grand scrap, Duffy the radical becomes Duffy the cheerleader of tory values?"<br /><br />"Who knows?"<br /> <br />"Not me. Maybe if she still has the socialist flame, she will be brave in the real sense and not the sense literature critics use this much debased word."<br /><br />"Hows that then?"<br /><br />"Brave as in, tell it like it is, actually highlight the inequality of having Their Majesties called Your Highness and herself plain aul Ms."<br /><br />"Yeah, dream on dickhead.."CoirĂ FilĂochtahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15137576329670368944noreply@blogger.com