Thomas W. Hodgkinson

‘Instapoetry’ may be popular, but most of it is terrible

The posts often seem like passing thoughts, hastily expressed and cut up at random

issue 23 November 2019
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Poetry is on a hot streak. Last year, sales in the UK topped £12 million for the first time — a rise of more than 10 per cent for the second year running. According to Parisa Ebrahimi, the poetry editor at Chatto & Windus, one reason for the trend is that poetry is no longer the domain of the white male.

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