But launching a defence of younger generations, the creative director of Manchester Metropolitan University’s writing school, said modern musicians used language in a poetic way.

"The poem is a form of texting ... it's the original text," said the poet, whose work is studied in schools at GCSE(General Certificate of Secondary Education) and A-level.

“It's a perfecting of a feeling in language – it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.

“We've got to realise that the Facebook generation is the future – and, oddly enough, poetry is the perfect form for them.”

Asked if poetry would survive in the “age of Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger”, she said: “I think increasingly in this century poetry is probably the literary form that will last the most.

“Poems are the original text messages in that they use language in a very concise way and I think they will become more relevant in this century than in the last century.

“We are reading less now than we did and a lot of young people spend a lot of time in front of a computer on Facebook or tweeting.

“So the poem is the literary form that is the most accessible simply because of its brevity.”

Duffy, a passionate advocate of poetry teaching in schools, dismissed suggestions from some teachers that it was "difficult" or "complicated".

The Scottish poet and playwright, who grew up in a “bookless house”, said that poetry was undergoing a major revival in the nation's classrooms.

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