The young poets writing as a form of resistance

Written by James Patterson for i-D on Tuesday, March 10th, 2020

This year’s T.S. Eliot winner, A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson, removed the families caught up in the Grenfell fire from the mainstream media narrative of victimhood, and turn them into something altogether more magical and compassionate: real people living real lives. That such a thing seems radical in 2020 is an indictment of just how low the establishment narrative has stooped...