Making Poetry Popular

There are great writers writing great scripts for great TV shows that will never be seen -- they deserve a medium free of reality programmes and jackasses also -- I would hate to see poetry privileged over television because they're both in the same boat.  Poetry is crap in the same way that TV is crap, and if we saturated ourselves with Hallmark and "poetic affirmations" to the same degree as we do television we'd be in just as much shit.  So no, TV does not have to go.  It's not Logie Baird's fault.  Might as well blame paper for all the rubbish poetry.

Shannon -- nothing will change if discussion is all that happens -- but if discussions breed action then there's a chance.  Not a big one, but hell, it's got to be worth a shot.  I don't want to live the rest of my life in some cornflakes-and-candy world, do you?