here should be more poetry in schools – not just the funnies and quirkies and the thoughfuls by Roger McGough, Benjamin Zephaniah by U.A. Fanthorpe and Grace Nicholls, good as they are. We have an enormous and extraordinary tradition of English Language poetry dating back to and pre-dating Chaucer. And our children are entitled to experience the likes of Milton, Keats, Tennyson and all the rest. Denying
