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The Telegraph on why Britain doesn’t need a poet laureate (which I hereby shorten to “loet”).
Like the awfulness of our National Anthem, the futility of the post of Poet Laureate is one of those running sores in our national culture which seem beyond healing. Every time the matter is aired, there’s a consensus that something ought to be done about it, and every time – because we ultimately prefer the comfortable slippers of tradition to the red cap of revolution – nothing ends up being done at all.
And now the debate resurfaces, as Andrew Motion reaches the end of his ten-year tenure, and a successor will be announced soon, through royal decree prompted by some mysterious cabal of Whitehall mandarins. Should the honour pass to a woman or someone of, er, diverse background? What’s the point, and does anyone care?
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February 25th, 2009 at 10:36 am
If england could not win
something called world cup
she didnt give up loving the game,
and so if world has changed
where we didnt care just much
about poems, rhymes, or poets,
about lines trying to make
something we earlier called Poem
it doesn.t mean so honourable a post
at least 200 years older than that of P.M.
If in the east lies something
we call england it doesn,t mean
we dont care from India.
let Telegraph change its editors.