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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459732" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>New Poetess Laureate for UK</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is a formal announcement today: <br>we have a new Poet Laureate.. hip hip hooray.. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘But who is he? Oh.. it’s a she-poet Laureate…? <br>so (because I don’t read poetry, of course..) <br>is that something I should shout hooray at? <br>or have committees once again, backed the wrong horse? ’ </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, she says she’s not ‘going to write <br>for Edward and Sophie’… <br>she’s Sapphic and butch, and called <br>Carol Ann Duffy </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and you can guess, from what she says <br>that there’ll be no Royal seal in wax <br>on her democratic classless ways… </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Right now, Supplement sub-editors are trawling her stuff <br>to find something printable <br>that’s ‘poetic’ enough…) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The story is, ‘she’d have got it on the last occasion’ <br>except for the aforementioned Sapphic persuasion… </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But aren’t poets supposed to be beyond such trivial pursuits? … <br>and just write poetry and truth; in high heels or in boots? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(And there’s always the hope, with or without Royal permission, <br>she might say something new about the female condition…) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">so, Edward and Sophie with your middle-class morals – <br>watch out! We could be in for some hard-hitting quarrels <br>re ‘The Nature of Poetry’ … and about time too: <br>since poetry’s subject is the deepest me and you… </div><div style="margin:10px 0">so the Forum poets here (in this empty music-hall) <br>hope you stir us up, and have a prancing, dancing Artists’ Ball; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">as with controversial old Ted Crow, Poet Laureate and toughie, <br>we shan’t expect respect – coz you ain’t no fluffy Duffy… </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now chaps - gold watch and thanks to Andrew’s poetic potion: <br>you could call it - for what words are worth - as <br>‘tranquillity, recollected in emotion’… </div><div style="margin:10px 0">…But sadly, already, in these economic downturn times – <br>Blackwells offer ‘3 for 2’ on CarolAnn Duffy’s rhymes…</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459732" data-title="New Poetess Laureate for UK de Michael Shepherd" data-description="This is a formal announcement today: we have a new Poet Laureate.. hip hip hooray.. ‘But who is he? Oh.. it’s a she-poet Laureate…? so (because I don’t read poetry, of course..) is that something I should shout hooray at? or have com..."></div> </div> </div>
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