K.Ahmed's blog

As an economics student my desktop cursor is constantly being dragged towards those business pages on BBC News which without fail always report those stories filled with doom and gloom. For an economics standpoint, it's pretty useful to have endless examples to throw into essays but then again, it can get pretty irritating when you know exactly what is meant by "an economic slow down" which has in recent days become an almost inevitable recession.

According to common consensus, poets are self-obsessed, emotionally broken and somewhat weird. To be honest, i agree, a lot of poets see nothing but their tightly confined structures, which should forever be conformed to for fear of being punished by their scorn and upturned noses. However, there is a prominent and growing number of poets who - in Lehman's terms - stuck both middle fingers up to the rules. In these modern times of...erm...things becoming modern, poetry is changing, subject matter is diversifying and it's boundaries are being blurred to a point almost beyond recognition.