Very poor effort from Michael Rosen with his anti-royal baby poem in today's Guardian (I know he said in the poem he didn't mind if other people were in favour of babies, but that's just conventional poodle-faking - even lefty miserablists cannot actually wage class war against a baby).
And he does not dare criticise the royal birth itself, but confines himself to disparaging the reporting of the royal birth, which makes his effort a poem about Kay Burley.
But it is the poor quality of the poetry that is so striking. Given the passion of the left for abstract ideas such as republicanism it is surprising that they cannot distill their feelings into great works of art. Michael Rosen's poor effort today could have been lifted from a Neil Kinnock speech - the dreary repetitive mantra of a loser.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jul/25/saturday-poem-mind-michael-rosen
And he does not dare criticise the royal birth itself, but confines himself to disparaging the reporting of the royal birth, which makes his effort a poem about Kay Burley.
But it is the poor quality of the poetry that is so striking. Given the passion of the left for abstract ideas such as republicanism it is surprising that they cannot distill their feelings into great works of art. Michael Rosen's poor effort today could have been lifted from a Neil Kinnock speech - the dreary repetitive mantra of a loser.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jul/25/saturday-poem-mind-michael-rosen
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