Carol Ann Duffy v Mills & Boone

[billy]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books...-Boon.html

Whilst the Oxford Professor, whom I have never read, has a great line 'democtatic language pared to the barest bean', is this sour grapes, from a man who is supposed to have wanted the job, and was only the second choice for the post he now holds? Is he doing poetry a favour by keeping it in the press?

Sir Geoffrey Hill criticised the 56-year-old for her eagerness to ‘democratise’ the art form.

i find the above a little hard to accept. i am after all a part of the democracy he mentions. i do think face book will breed a new kind of language and isn't that what new poets will share in? of course classic poetry and the like will still about but isn't it changing language a part of changes in future writing?

i don't know any of the pair but it does sound like sour grapes. to personally remonstrate over a named poet who got the acclaim he was seeking.