>Hi--sorry if someone already answered Chris Emery's question, I just checked
>the archives over here & didn't see a reply. _New British Poetries: The
>Scope of the Possible_ is a collection of essays on many of the small-press
>poets who are the concern of this list--it's got a reprint of an Eric
>Mottram piece on "The British Poetry Revival", Peter Middleton on Heaney,
>Prynne & nationality, Sheppard on Harwood, Barry on Allen Fisher...I forget
>the exact details but there were things on Black British poetry, on Helen
>Kidd (by Helen Kidd), Adrian Clarke, Gael Turnbull, David Miller, etc. I
>thought it an OK book though the essays are uneven. Probably the best one
>is the Middleton piece. -- There's an intelligent but harshly negative
>review of it by Anthony Mellors floating around in a few spots (versions
>appeared in _Critical Quarterly_ & a backissue of _Parataxis_--this latter
>prompted a response from Hampson in the final issue of the journal); & I
>think Keith Tuma gave it a positive review somewhere (Keith, help me on
>this--_Contemporary Literature_? _Modernism/Modernity_?).
Nate drags me out of a daze brought on by TOTAL heat. It's
_Contemporary Literature_ 36 (1995), 718-36. The Hampson/Barry book is
reviewed beside Patrick Deane's _At Home in Time: Forms of Neo-Augustanism
in Modern English Poetry_. Beyond what Nate accurately remembers _New
British Poetries_ also features Roger Ellis on UK little magazines. Robert
Hampson's essay takes up not only Adrian Clarke and David Miller but also
Charles Madge, Ken Edwards, and Allen Fisher. The essay on "Black poetry
in Britain" is by Fred D'Aguiar. I haven't looked at my review since I
wrote it and won't now, but both books are worth reading.
cheers
Keith
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