• Graham Parker: Stupid people should shut the f?!k up
  SS: ...Why do you believe that an artist's opinion on politics should matter? GP: I don't participate actively in expressing political views and always turn down the offer of appearing on bills for political causes. Surely, everybody's opinions on politics matter, apart from very stupid people, who should shut the f?!k up...
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• The futility of unconventional poetry
  I'm a poet. Whether I'm a good one or a bad one is, I suppose, open to debate. But the fundamental fact of my life and career is that the business activities that define my professional existence these days are Plan C, at best. If the world worked the way I wish it did, I'd make my living writing, publishing and teaching poetry. (And ideally, I'd be earning a living wage.) I thought I was on this track back in the late 1980s, when...
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