The Independent - London, January 13th, 2003
Maybe I'm growing more like Comic Book Guy in The Simpsons whose catch phrase is: "Worst episode ever!" Andrew Motion's latest poem, Causa Belli, really does follow the downward arc established in his earlier public poems. This quatrain is his first Iraq poem: "They read good books, and quote, but never learn A language other than the scream of rocket-burn. Our straighter talk is drowned but iron-clad: Elections, money, empire, oil and dad." In spite of being able to read good books, our leaders only have one language? They can only express themselves by screaming at us? This is untrue o...
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