Mobbed at signings,followed by millions and topping the bestseller lists: Instapoets such as Lang Leav, Rupi Kaur and Tyler Knott Gregson are poetry’s recent superstars, and publishing their love poems and haiku on social media. But are they any good? In 2013,Lang Leav self-published a small debut poetry collection, Love & Misadventure, or online. Two years later,she was assembly her fans on a book tour in the Philippines. “It was insane,” she says. “The organisers had to limit each signing to 500 people per session … and I was being escorted by armed guards.” Many queued for hours, and some camping out overnight for a chance to meet her.
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Source: theguardian.com