FROM THE ARCHIVES : A SERIES FOR SATURDAYS

From July 24th 2008BETTER THAN W.B. YEATS AS A POET?Tony Wilson once made the claim that Shaun Ryder was a better poet than William Butler Yeats, and that in the fullness of time, he'd come to be regarded every much as talented a genius as Mozart.I'm sure my dear friend Greer, who, in addition to making fabulous weekly contributions to the Contrast Podcast, writes an equally fabulous musical and poetry blog called A Sweet Unrest, would be horrified at such a comparison, but I do suspect Tony's ...

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