Ely has anti-Lyric ranted before but the article disappeared. Well, now he's tapping into fashionable Lyric-bashing in support of a new course of his at The Poetry School. Still, it's amusing stuff. Painting them as glorified postcard writers is a stroke a genius. Wish he'd come out with some names too mind.
“The concept is of poet-as-gadabout-tourist-of-his-own-experience and, extending the metaphor, his poems might be characterised as postcards home or even holiday snaps in verse — lovely sunset this evening, really missing you, gorgeous-paella-evoked-in-vivid-sensory-detail, horrific oppression of donkeys, wish you were here — and so on.”
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Kei Miller’s a bloody good poet and I didn’t know he wrote a blog so here’s his latest post, a meditation on being a black poet in Britain. Bit annoying that he’s so coy about who the ‘major poet’ is but still, discretion is the better part of valour, etc. Anyone care to guess which grandee got the monk on about the race card being played?
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David Orr — James Franco, Poet
“I’m obliged here to note that this actor is well acquainted with the educational system, having apparently attended graduate programs at Yale, Columbia, New York University, Brooklyn College, Warren Wilson College, the Rhode Island School of Design, Le Cordon Bleu, Quantico, Hogwarts (Ravenclaw), the Vaganova School of Russian Ballet and the Jedi Academy.”
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