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who is the greatest Living poet ?
It occured to me that debates about poets and who is the greatest of all time are usually poets that have passed away (Dylan Thomas, Oscar Wilde, Sylvia Plath etc) but who do you think is the greatest poet alive today ? just interested to see who people say, I asked someone on twitter this question and they said Beck Cooper, I checked out her work and while she is really not my cup of tea she is very popular. I do quite like James Clephane-Cameron but I'd like to see who is regarded by most as the best
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Should this really be in the Music thread?
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Should this really be in the Music thread?
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Let's keep it in the Music section by nominating John Cooper-Clarke
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Leonard Cohen.
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Let's keep it in the Music section by nominating John Cooper-Clarke
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I don't know about the greatest, but Alice Oswald writes some lovely poetry.
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Joolz Denby.
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oan a wee cold day in winter
browsing the net, and pulling out a splinter a man by the name of Jimmy Reed popped up oan aw'body's forum feed who was the greatest poet? burns, wordworth, Denby or Moet? oan wan thing we could all agree awbody hates a sting by a bee. |
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oan a wee cold day in winter
browsing the net, and pulling out a splinter a man by the name of Jimmy Reed popped up oan aw'body's forum feed who was the greatest poet? burns, wordworth, Denby or Moet? oan wan thing we could all agree awbody hates a sting by a bee. |
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Me,
you see i'm a poet and you know it its a crime when a poem don;t rhyme i'm not wasting my time reading your shit it should be like this this poem is lit © Billy_Value 2016 |
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*sigh* Thanks everybody
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Let's keep it in the Music section by nominating John Cooper-Clarke
![]() ...is a great poem. Saw him supporting Squeeze. He was blinking brilliant. Audience in stiches. Great bloke, and got my vote!
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oan a wee cold day in winter
browsing the net, and pulling out a splinter a man by the name of Jimmy Reed popped up oan aw'body's forum feed who was the greatest poet? burns, wordworth, Denby or Moet? oan wan thing we could all agree awbody hates a sting by a bee.
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There isn`t a great living poet.
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I don't know about the greatest living poet but When I am an Old Woman I Will Wear Purple by Jackie Johnson is probably one of my favourite modern poems.
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I prefer 'here be the verse' by Phillip Larkin....
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I don't know about the greatest living poet but When I am an Old Woman I Will Wear Purple by Jackie Johnson is probably one of my favourite modern poems.
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I don't know about the greatest living poet but When I am an Old Woman I Will Wear Purple by Jackie Johnson is probably one of my favourite modern poems.
I like that one too, and I do - wear purple ! haven't got a stick yet, so I can't run it along the railings. |
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