The CBC is Reporting On a war of words between Canada’s newly appointed poet laureate and a spoken word poet based in Vancouver.
In a recent Globe and Mail article, poet laureate George Bowering denounced slam, or spoken word, poetry and poetry competitions as “revolting.”
Treating poetry as a competition is “crude and extremely revolting”, Bowering told the Globe.
Vancouver-based spoken word poet T. Paul Ste. Marie says he’s angry, and has received dozens of e-mails from other frustrated slam poets.
“[Poetry] as a servant of language rather than the other way around,” said Bowering. “That’s my main argument.”
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