The misfortune of The Poets was to exist in those pre-renaissance, pre-1990 years when Glasgow, to recall the words of Alasdair Gray, had no imaginative existence.
As a location of the mind, their city was off the maps of all the arts except that of the knife-crime, horror-show TV documentary, and furthest off that of pop music. Everybody knew this was nowhere, except for the natives, who didn't realise it was even that.
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The misfortune of The Poets was to exist in those pre-renaissance, pre-1990 years when Glasgow, to recall the words of Alasdair Gray, had no imaginative existence.
As a location of the mind, their city was off the maps of all the arts except that of the knife-crime, horror-show TV documentary, and furthest off that of pop music. Everybody knew this was nowhere, except for the natives, who didn't realise it was even that.
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