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  • While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

    "Ode to a right royal charmer" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2000.