Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Poetry is not everyone’s cup of tea. To some, perhaps misguided, possibly even consciously ignorant of the form and its turbulent history, the seismic revolt against strained form and stiff suited underwhelming development that shook the world post World War Two, is nothing more than pretension, a dip into the ocean without a bathing suit or a pair of trunks to hide the soul and yet arguably poetry has never been as popular now in the 21^st Century at any time since the days when Allen Ginsberg tore apart convention at the Royal Albert Hall and delivered the 20^th Century standard bearer, Howl.