Wednesday, July 1, 2020

On Fire

Can great poetry emerge from the righteous anger felt in relation to dreadful social injustice, from the most current of current affairs? Yes, I'm sure it can and I have the latest pick from Carol Rumens's unfailingly thought-provoking Poem of the Week to prove it. Incendiary Art: Ferguson 2014 seems to me to fulfil EP's great dictum of poetry as News that stays News, and it's difficult to imagine any reader disagreeing.

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