tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post58374166115049527..comments2024-01-19T21:33:09.716+00:00Comments on E Y E W E A R, THE BLOG - FREEDOM MEANS BEING UNAFRAID TO WRITE WHAT YOU THINK: AGM or ARGGHHH!?EYEWEARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01900801847916951522noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726943.post-74461990122037512632011-07-12T21:23:49.672+01:002011-07-12T21:23:49.672+01:00It's always struck me as ironic, once poets ne...It's always struck me as ironic, once poets need the services of a barrister to do their talking for them, to act on their behalf, because poets, by definition, are supposed to be the most eloquent people on the planet, and the ideal is to be waxing lyrical above the pitch of the dusty legal bods for whom a poet from top table they have professional dealings with, represents only a fee.<br /><br />Careers are at stake, you write, and this is the nub of it. Careers made and broken, not on the strength of poems, but on the machinations of the mind in a place like London, where the dead can drop in front of us and our immediate reaction is 'fuck off and die someplace else'.<br /><br />They should move the PS HQ to someplace like Liverpool or Burnley, Bridlington or Bridgend, Nottingham or Truro, Scunthorpe, Southport or Craven Mills, anywhere but that gawd forsaken shit-hole of London, where it's all about how much money you earn, rather than how good your poetry is.<br /><br />Desmond BoredsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com