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7pm Outsideleft's Big National Poetry Day: John Robinson John Robinson - My Reply To You

7pm Outsideleft's Big National Poetry Day: John Robinson

John Robinson - My Reply To You

by LamontPaul, Founder & Publisher
first published: October, 2021

approximate reading time: minutes

John Robinson - My Reply To You

My Response To You

The national day of poetry:
a day, no less, 24 hours
as if the naming of those hours
frees poets to demand attention
from the public, whose vapid affection
extends no further than bakers, sportsmen,
celebrities above their station,
and rarely to any artistic intention.
Do I know poets?, asks Mr. Lamont,
but what is a poet, where sits that font
of intelligence, wit and linguistic contortion?
Is it in anyone who chooses to write 
or a title conferred by the gatekeepers' sight?
 


(C) John Robinson

 

Something you should know:
John Robinson was born in 1973 in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, a regrettable incident which possibly triggered the UK's entry into the European Union.He attended University in Canterbury, studying Radio, Film and Television with Mathematics, because he is insane, and then completed a vocational certificate in Journalism in Sheffield College. The country then spat him out to spend three years teaching English in Poland, till 2000, possibly triggering their membership of the European Union.  John's Momus Book (published by Zero Books) will be available at the end of October.

 

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