I wanted to reimagine the role in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents events preoccupations and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.
Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived… Poems on the Underground poets in schools football clubs zoos.
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More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.
