Monday, 25 July 2022

Katherine Lawrence : coda

Why is poetry important? 

I chuckle when I hear someone say that they don’t read poetry. Poetry is everywhere! It shows up at the wedding, crosses the street to attend a funeral, dashes downtown to baptize a baby, races across town to plaster itself across a billboard, then slips inside a greeting card on the way home. In the kitchen, it roasts a chicken from a recipe full of savoury, buttery language. It’s the da-DUM, da-DUM, da-DUM, of first language. Is poetry important? Poetry sustains us like daily bread.

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