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IT’S not often that the mainstream media take an interest in political poetry.
But when Poems for Jeremy Corbyn (Shoestring Press, £10) was recently launched at the Labour Party conference, the broadsheets were quick to ridicule it as “fan poetry,” “doggerel” and “a volume of verse for which Corbyn is the ‘muse’.”
One Blairite MP told the Daily Telegraph that the book was “the only thing that had made me smile all week.”
Of course, these are not poems “about” Jeremy Corbyn.
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