Tuesday, April 03, 2007

News at Eleven: "There are risks of sentimentality,"

he [Tony Harrison] says. "But my metre starts ticking in the presence of dumbness and inarticulacy. Coming from a very inarticulate family made me try to speak for those who can't express themselves, and created a need for articulation at its most ceremonial--poetry."

from The Guardian: Beats of the heart

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