I heard some poet described the other day as 'a female Byron'. I thought to myself: bloody hell, is she mad, bad and dangerous to know as well? I hope she didn't look like the creature portrayed by Gabriel Byrne in that mad film about the poets Byron and Shelley and their birds at Lake Geneva. I remember Timothy Spall playing a particularly disgusting Dr Polidori in that flick, the name of which sadly eludes me right now.
The description of this poetess didn't entice me to find out more about her work. One male Byron is as much as the world can take, a female version we can do without, methinks.
