Donaghy: 'If poetry depended on intellectuals for its survival it would be about as current as hieroglyphics.

'On the graduate level, modern pedagogues have long felt disinclined to lead tour groups around the gallery waving their pointing sticks at the sheer genius of the Old Masters. They want to be the main event. Literacy corrupts, they seem to be saying, and Literature, the common ground of writing agreed to be worthy of cultural survival, is the tool of the oppressor,

These are Michael's comments on finishing the stint as resident at the poetry soc. You can follow the link and buy 'Wallflowers', which is still available and a must for all poetrylovers.