Motion rebuts plagiarism claim
Former British Poet Laureate Andrew Motion is “jarred,” and unconvinced, by historian Ben Shephard’s claim that Motion’s poem “An Equal Voice” – a “found” poem about war which Motion prefaces by acknowledging he uses excerpts from Shephard’s 2001 history of medical psychiatry, A War of Nerves – is an act of plagiarism. More at Guardian, which published the controversial poem on Saturday.
Posted on Monday, November 9th, 2009