The guy got six years for manslaughter after beating somebody to death? I guess Clarke liked his poems.This article could have used some editing.
Saturday, January 04, 2020
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… Poet cancels speech in Regina after uproar over his association to a killer | Regina Leader-Post. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)
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Also, hopefully, there's more to come from the poetry "community", which has always been so supportive of inmates. Then there's the case of once you have done your time, have you paid your dues? Or would it have been better if the murderer were still in prison when getting his poetry published.
ReplyDeleteThen, certainly, there's the whole tragic issue of missing, raped , and/or murdered indigenous women. Is there anything more horrific? I suppose, in a world peppered with sociopaths, maybe equal. What does the world of poetry do with Ezra Pound, not that he pulled the trigger, and not that the Canadian poet equals him in literary contribution? The same thing the Football world does with OJ Simpson?
Just discussing.