Poets are Liars
“if poetry genuinely is a truth-telling and poets truth-tellers, it seems important to demonstrate that what we do is falsifiable. What on earth would it mean to ‘lie’ in a poem?”
—Don Paterson on poetry, philosophy, & lies
https://northseapoets.substack.com/p/poets-are-liars
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