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Poetry is a minority interest - any bookseller will tell you that - yet people are impelled to write it.
Poetry smells old-fashioned - skylarks, the Romantics with their laudanum, Shakespeare's knitted syntax - yet it soaks up today's language - informational, fact-rich, media-rapid - and pushes it up against universal concerns of love, death, god, silence.
The poet Robert Crawford said "poetry thrives on impossibilities and takes them as its most urgent language".
Crawford cheekily christened his creed Cosmipolibackofbeyondism. "To sound its music is to love all language, remaining true to our electronic global present at the same time as keeping faith with local, theological, vernacular and aureate values."
This is where we sound off.