Wednesday 15 June 2022

Anna Lee-Popham : part five

Why is poetry important?

Poetry invites the writer and reader to determine the expansiveness, the constraints, the air, the textures of a language. Poetry takes none of that for granted. Poetry breaks what could be seen as cemented, permanent, resolute, immobile in language and so points to that possibility throughout language and also throughout our social, political, personal lives and the broader landscape we live within.

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