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

23 November 2019

9:00 AM

23 November 2019

9:00 AM

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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