USA Africa Dialogue Series - Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poems are a form of texting'

"The poem is a form of texting ... it's the original text," says Carol Ann Duffy. "It's a perfecting of a feeling in language – it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is. We've got to realise that the Facebook generation is the future – and, oddly enough, poetry is the perfect form for them. It's a kind of time capsule – it allows feelings and ideas to travel big distances in a very condensed form."

 

And you all thought that the great prophet Ikhide is a lunatic Abject apologies accepted ;-) Oya, read and weep ;-))))) 

 

- Ikhide