Why no one gets to push poetry around

Some thoughts on why poems are made of tough stuff

Poetry might seem delicate, but that’s just a delusion. Poetry might seem fragile, but that’s just plain false. True poetry is gilded gossamer, but it is also grit and graphene. Poetry can walk into our lives with the light step of a spirit, but it also wears bovver boots and isn’t afraid to apply them. Poetry can land like a muse in the garret of the w…