The poetry scene in the UK is littered with "posh birds" old and young, with Phd's from cambridge and accents to die for. But do they make good poets or perhaps they fit the profile of what a female poet should be as espoused and manufactured by the editors of the leading poetry publishers like Carcanet, Bloodaxe, Seren, Faber and Faber etc- let's have some female poets with real life experience and who are a bit rough around the edges and less of your garden party types please!
I'm thinking Tracy Emin, meets Lindsay Lohan with a bit of Courtney Love
Here is an example of what I mean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WsD2odziKE (I love the way she says "smack")
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