“It seems churlish to complain that poetry is receiving publicity, however dishonestly generated. Sales and readerships are very low; I read recently that 3% of all book sales are of poetry, and even that figure seems surprisingly high. But might we not be in danger of an inflationary rhetoric with regard to contemporary poetry, where so many superlative epithets – ‘best poet of their generation’, ‘best American poet currently writing’, and so on – are scattered like confetti over the whole crowd? – The Guardian