Poet in residence not quite so fine

This entry’s a slightly left-field one for a Thursday, but hey ho. It concerns the Ashes poet-in-residence, David Fine, who you may recall received thousands of pounds of Arts Council funding to describe England’s disasters Down Under. The book section of The Guardian questions what the point was of having him on tour, particularly as the Times Literary Supplement was moved to describe his work as "more than mildly distressing".