Tuesday, December 28, 2010

News at Eleven: The poet [Gillian Clarke] herself

dismissed the idea she was writing to "an agenda", arguing instead that the ecological focus of some of her recent work came because "you write about your obsessions".

"What I'm doing these days is loving the planet rather than moaning about it," she said. "If we love the planet we might just save it, but if we moan we might not."

from The Guardian: Gillian Clarke 'stunned' at winning Queen's gold medal for poetry

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