News at Eleven: [David Lehman]: Hall is probably right.

But that's like saying that in any age there are always at most five or six great poets whose work will survive a century hence. But I've noticed, too, that those who make this argument are seldom the ones most likely to endure. If you feel, as I do, that it is important to enlarge the audience for poetry, then you have to go beyond your own narrow self-interest; you have to go beyond the interest of your faction. Contemporary poetry is marked by factions and factionalism. Each faction thinks well of itself and belittles the others. This is a natural state of affairs.

from Eurozine: There's always someone who says that poetry is dead

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