Modern Poetry Is Bad Because We've Lost The Reverence For Beauty

Here's a clip taken from my recent livestream highlighting that modern poetry sucks because, amongst other reasons, we've lost reverence for the beauty and the divine, along with seeing poetry as an art "form" that helps us reach for those things.

Apologies for the latency issues - future streams will have dedicated recordings *

📺 Check out the full stream: • Poems & Musings on The Mundane, Remembranc...
📺 Check out Andrew Benson Brown's video on the Free Verse tradition (mentioned in the clip): • Formal Aspects of Free Verse (Ep.13, Part ...

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