by Andrew Motionfrom The Guardian: The Saturday poem: Passing on by Andrew Motion
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The other part of the problem is to do with reception. In every case, after I'd written these eight poems, I sent them to my agent, who sent them to newspapers, where they landed on news editors' desks. News editors don't think a poem is a story in and of itself, so they then get on the phone to as many people as it takes to find someone who doesn't like the poem--then they have their story: poet laureate writes another no-good poem.
I'm not the first laureate to complain about this.
from Andrew Motion: The Guardian: Yet once more, O ye laurels
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