What is the future of poetry?


What is poetry for? Who is it for? And can it really be on the ascendant? Stephen Moss (who has, sadly, not become the next Oxford professor of poetry) reports from the front line…


click on image to go the Guardian article…



“He has been voted the greatest journalist of the 20th century.”


By the same species which made Simon Cowell and Joseph J Hitler millionaires.


Click on the photo if you want the Guardian to explain…


Think you can do better, write in, we’ll publish it.


From today’s Guardian:


“Get an accountant, abstain from sex and similes, cut, rewrite, then cut and rewrite again – if all else fails, pray. Inspired by Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing, we asked authors for their personal dos and don’ts…”


to read on, click on Andrzej Krauze’s illustration…