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When I went into the last lap I was regretting a bit that it was over. I was enjoying again the first sector for the last time. Simply fantastic this circuit, and if you get 53 laps more, you appreciate it even more. It's made by God's hands.

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Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

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Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

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I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.

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When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on

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The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments the political one, certainly, but also that of the wider poetry world itself. It changed poetry for ever in the UK,. . . It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more women reading and publishing poems, as well as gay guys and poets from all over the world. Until that time, published poetry had been very university-based white, male, middle-class. We were trying to break poetry out of its academic confines.

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