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Billy Collins keep’s popping up in various publications and he’s clearly an inspiration for a lot of young poets starting out. it’s a shame I find him uninteresting.

J. Allyn Rosser is very talented. So are Alice Oswald and Don Paterson .

The best success story of the last 10 yeas has been Clive James. Always a bit of a wannabe, sometime in the early 2000’s he was diagnosed with cancer and kicked out of the house by his wife, which seems to have finally forced a seriousness—a real seriousness—into his work. He’s now inevitably written to much in to short a time but it’s all been really good starting with Nefertiti in the Flak Tower and rolling on..

Oh, and another Australian, Les Murray is arguably today's greatest living poet, since Richard Wilbur’s death.

lets’ see … Sean O'Brien is still writing

I dono, it’s no secret it’s not a great time for poetry, though heaven’s knows there more poetry prizes and art’s council money floating about then ever before. I fear we live in a museum. An exceptionally well stocked museum where there’s no danger of us getting bored, but also where ,the best we can hope for, is to occasionally dig up a sightly newer dinosaur bone .

wow .. that s a long answer to was was intentionally a silly question.

this was in the Atlantic a while ago (or maybe the newyorker) .

i was very impressed.

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Read this yesterday in The Atlantic January 2017.