The Toronto Star today has this from the UK poet laureate:
and they quote part of one of the anti-war poems he has published as laureate.
The previous US poet laureate was against the Iraq invasion:
but did he write anything about it? And what has his replacement, Louse Glück, said on the subject? Or doesn't she say?
If U.S. and British forces invaded Iraq last year in order to make people such as Andrew Motion feel safe, then they failed.
"Watching the news, I kind of wring my hands," says the man who has been Britain's poet laureate for the past five years. "The sense of threatened-ness that we all feel has hugely escalated."
and they quote part of one of the anti-war poems he has published as laureate.
The previous US poet laureate was against the Iraq invasion:
In comments rarely heard from a sitting U.S. poet laureate, Billy Collins has publicly declared his opposition to war and says he finds it increasingly difficult to keep politics out of his official job as literary advocate.
but did he write anything about it? And what has his replacement, Louse Glück, said on the subject? Or doesn't she say?
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