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No Poets Allowed

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.
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Poetry Pleases! said…
Dear Todd

And British poetry editors continue to labour under the delusion that they are all doing a great job!

Best wishes from Simon
Mon Jun 27, 12:34:00 pm 2011
Sheenagh Pugh said…
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'....
Mon Jun 27, 04:45:00 pm 2011
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