Michael Gove comes up with some interesting stuff, doesn't he? In the House of Commons this week he paid an 80th birthday tribute to the Oxford Professor of Poetry, Professor Sir Geoffrey Hill, "our greatest living poet".
Labour MP Stephen Pound swiftly responded with: "I do not wish to distract the House in celebration of today’s birthday of one of our greatest living poets — Sir Paul McCartney..."
So is Macca a poet? He doesn't seem to be up there with Shakespeare or Dylan, or even Lennon. But maybe he has, on occasion, been more than just a brilliant melodist. And whether you like it or not, the words of the 2,000-plus cover versions of his song "Yesterday" may well have touched more people more deeply than the collected works of all of the above.
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