
Stevie Smith and William Carlos Williams
Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast
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The Importance of Reading Poetry
I'm imagining him as a bit like when I dance naked, waving my shirt above my, above my head like that. The reason I don't read up much on poems is anyone who knows a lot about poetry has probably already been thinking, this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. By the way, you've got to read a poem several times, that's the deal. You've got to, and I'm not having any arguing, so that's that. Now, so he's dancing grotesquely, naked in his room. I think it's beautiful because it isn't beautiful. And they were amazing, but I wasn't, I wasn't moved by them.
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