There is a democratic but deluded post-modern fantasy where… - Dennis O'Driscoll

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There is a democratic but deluded post-modern fantasy whereby everybody is demed an artist.

Dennis O'Driscoll

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Dennis O'Driscoll(1954-2012) was an Irish poet, essayist, critic and editor.

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All poets face the same task to 'follow the prompts' and satisfactorily shape the amorphous sounds, rhythms, images or phrases by which a potential poem is recognised.

Interview, Mark Thwaite, 12th August 2005, 'Ready Steady Books for literature'

I am completely passive about my poetry, unless I sense the rhythms, see the images and hear the words spontaneously, I am helpless.

There is a democratic but deluded post-modern fantasy whereby everybody is demed an artist. - Dennis O'Driscoll

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