Great Regulars: This is not the poetry world's inability

to play nice with itself - to hear about that, one need only buy an American poet a beer. This is the poetry world attempting, in an environment where poetry is as marginalised as it's ever been - despite the volume of the stuff being produced - to figure what is good, and why it should matter, and then make those judgments heard.

from John Freeman: The Guardian: Verse-slinging

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That's what books really are to children and young people - gateways to new experiences, greater complexities. And what better way to protect them from these things--otherwise known as 'the world'--than by staunching the problem at its source?

This week is Banned Books Week, and once again some of our worst pushers will be forced to own up to their activities.

from John Freeman: The Guardian: theblogbooks: The war on books

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