AIDAN HARMAN,
Sir, - Three cheers for Kevin Myers (An Irishman's Diary, April 2nd) for putting current daft ideas about what constitutes art and poetry into perspective.
He highlights the extraordinary self-delusion that is at work in both practitioners and audience and reveals the true nature of the emperor's clothes. He puts it succinctly: "gruesome parodies of art, in which there is no self-discipline, no intellectual rigour, no hard work, no self-doubt, and worst of all, any number of poetry workshops". Bullseye!
It is sad to think that what he has written is unlikely to have any effect in a climate of politically correct idiocy that allows no dissent from contemporary orthodoxy. - Yours, etc.,
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AIDAN HARMAN,
Dillon's Cross,
Cork.