.. this year's festival, dedicated to peace in the Middle East, is not about personalities either. From the beginning, Ted Hughes, who founded that first festival, hoped to reconcile "ferocious contradictions" between nations (not poets).
I think Auden was right and that "poetry changes nothing" -- though it may change the poet and the individual reader. To dedicate a poetry festival to peace in the Middle East brings to my mind the Feiffer cartoon in which a woman announces that she is about to do a dance for world hunger.
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