More on The Sunday Times - great fodder today for poetry stuff - their 100 BEST BOOKS FOR THE BEACH section had ZERO POETRY. Wouldn't want to get sand in that Waste Land.
But that's always or nearly always the case with these features. It's also interesting that on the rare occasions when they ask a poet to choose, he/she generally chooses a novel. Possibly because they're asked to, or maybe because they're embarrassed to choose their own poems and don't want to choose their rivals'....
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But that's always or nearly always the case with these features. It's also interesting that on the rare occasions when they ask a poet to choose, he/she generally chooses a novel. Possibly because they're asked to, or maybe because they're embarrassed to choose their own poems and don't want to choose their rivals'....
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