Poetry is dead — again
David McKie weighs in on what has become a staple topic for the literary journalist: the decline of poetry as a cultural force. In an opinion piece for The Guardian, McKie speculates on the reasons for this decline, eventually concluding that the pace of modern life is not conducive to reading verse: “the trouble is that [poetry] needs to be read not just with an eye for an exploitable line or two but slowly and very thoughtfully. And that, I fear, is the problem with serious poetry nowadays, most of all for those of us who have spent their lives in newspapers. The lasting deformity that comes from a life in newspapers is that you can’t read slowly.”
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Read David McKie’s piece in The Guardian
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