We Can Think Of Some Poets We’d Like To Send Into Space…

The UK’s Poetry Society has conducted a poll to determine which poem Britons would most like to see shot into space – not as a way to get rid of it, you understand, more as a tribute to the spirit of poetry. The winner, announced in advance of Thursday’s National Poetry Day celebrations, is “Human Beings,” a poem by Adrian Mitchell. It’s worth noting that there currently are no plans to actually shoot the poem into space, and a copy of it will reside at the UK’s National Space Society for the foreseeable future.