Talk:Tom Leonard (poet)

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POV[edit]

Sections of this read like a polemic against the 'literary elite' rather than a biography. Ben davison 19:14, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"By mirroring and articulating the way we actually live, speak and think Leonard has undermined, and provided an alternative to, all that is stuck-up, pompous, cryptic and deceitful about modern poetry and journalism. In the process he has exposed the power, and class, structures that command language and which hide behind the veil of respectability. His work exists outside of institutionalised culture and is all the more vibrant and meaningful because of this. To say this is to capture nothing of the music, humour, rebelliousness and compassion in his work." This section, in particular, isn't NPOV. Jordansc 22:04, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

dis is great its well good lol —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.110.149.93 (talk) 10:20, 7 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, this is some really badly written stuff. --Tombomp 15:38, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I nominated it to be checked for NPOV - writing like "Radical Renfrew not only exposes the ignorance of Eliot, and company, but also lays bare their motives in denying the existence of a native Scottish culture, denying Scottish people “the right to equality of dialogue with those in possession of Queen's English or "good" Scots.”" is clearly non-encyclopeadic. --Tombomp (talk) 10:35, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Surely when you are talking about someone with a vocation, then to give an accurate biography you really ought to capture the opinions and beliefs that drive them in their work, especially when their work centres around using language carefully to explain the power and misuse of language to enforce a political system. It might be different if you were doing a biography of a TV vet or tango dancer.

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