place in a future world where young people from less advantaged backgrounds may baulk at the idea of taking on tens of thousands of pounds of debt for the pleasure of spending three years at university in the company of the Romantic poets? "Yes there will be all kinds of challenges down the line. If I can lend my voice to the idea that creative writing is not some sort of frivolous endeavour but a robust subject with high values and produces high calibre work--I want to be part of that debate," he says.from The Independent: Armitage: 'Creative writing is not a frivolous endeavour'
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