Jan
31
Duffy writes Mills & Boon, humanising the linguistic semantic detritus of oligarchical consumerism, says Geoff Hill.
In his lecture “Poetry, Policing and Public Order” Oxford Prof of Poetry, Geoffrey Hill, takes a swipe at Laureate Carol Ann Duffy for writing the equivalent of Mills & Boon. He accuses her of aspiring “to humanise the linguistic semantic detritus of our particular phase of oligarchical consumerism”. That sounds serious.
Listen to the Prof’s lecture here.
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