[New-Poetry] Carol Ann Duffy gets the laurels

[Bob Grumman]

Robin Hamilton wrote:
> Sorry, Jim, I *was a bit unsure as to who I was picking up on.
>
> But if you think I'm bad, wait till the Birk chimes in on this.
>
> (I was hesitant about getting involved here, as I find CAD's poetry so 
> dull that I can't pay enough attention to it to argue against it.)
>
>        ... but if you could nominate a Recent Dead Poet, my money 
> would be on Fanthorpe.
>
> Applying the 100 Years Rule, I suspect she'll be there.
>
> Robin
So, Robin, what living poet of all those eligible for the post would you 
deem towering?  Any?  I don't like the adjective for poets, myself.  I'm 
not sure I can think of any American poet I'd call towering.  My 
favorites weren't/aren't towering.  In England maybe Marlowe, 
Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth and Yeats?  None of them seem to me to 
tower like Beethoven or Wagner.  Nor any painters.  Except maybe 
Michelangelo. 

--Bob