Poetry risks terminal decline

Benjamin Zephaniah, John Hegley, Roger McGough are people who have made poetry hip and populist but unfortunately it is also trite doggerel? The consequence is that everyone thinks a poet is someone who produces humorous, limerick-like verse or believes that if their emotions are that strong then the verse that they produce must be an adequate reflection of what they feel. So everyone is a poet and soon no one will be one either. Ireland still holds the fort with people like Seamus Heaney and Paul Durkin. Where are the new Hughes’ and where are people listing poems that strive to have let their language loose; succinct, bold imagary, allusions. If you know one, or you are one why not let the rest of us know.De dah de dah de dah de dah, de dah de dah de dah. John Cooper Clarke you are the exception that proves the rule by the way.