Kuk91 wrote:
AineteEkaterini wrote:
...Perhaps it was based on a misunderstanding <...>
I think it is misunderstanding (or simply a speculation)
I think you're right. This is from the cached version of the National Poetry Society's original press release:
"Channel 4’s continuity team will be giving the mic to young refugee and migrant poets – 18-year-old Afghan Shukria Rezaei, the recipient of the first Forward Prizes studentship, and 17-year-old Vivien Urban from Hungary - who have been invited to foreground a different side of Britain post-Brexit. Their poems will replace the introduction on the idents throughout the day.
"In London, poets and poetry readings abound. The Poetry Society and Southbank centre are handing over the reins of the year’s biggest poetry events of the year to young poetry producers who will curate a day of free poetry readings, films, performances and workshops featuring the Mercury Prize-winning artist PJ Harvey, and Children’s Laureate Chris Riddell"
So Polly's contribution was only ever going to be a reading, by the sound of it, and journalistic garbling turned it into something more. I can see that confusing the biographers in years to come!