10-09-2011, 09:24 AM
My nephew did Poetry in a Creative Writing degree. At the end, all the students produced little booklrts, self-published. I windered what the college thought they were about, but one look at the main man, a bumbling over-weight character who could have played the lead in 'The History Boys', and I knew there was no point even in making a polite enquiry. His real enthusiasm lay in translating a French poet, who, one might have thought, was not susceppptible to translation.
Nevertheless, I think times change, and change again, and a little publicity, a certain charisma, and bingo! Middle-brow it may be, but better that than nothing....
