"This is very interesting. I have been New Zealand
Poetry with great
interest in the last weeks, and would appreciate any
recommendations and
references. Who are the poets that you mean?"
Wystan Curnow, Leigh Davis, John Geraets, and CK
Stead, for starters. Want to stress that I have no
problem with these poets personally - in fact I don't
even really know them as people - and that I find some
of their work interesting.
Five NZ poets to look at:
Kendrick Smithyman, Charles Spear, Te Kooti, Richard
Taylor, and Andrew Johnston. Have no idea why I chose
exactly that list off the top of my head, but there
you go. If you can't track any of those names down,
let me know, and I'll give you a hand. Ditto for any
other stuff you're interested in.
"What are Michele Leggott's politics?"
I don't know her personally, though of course I know
her work,so I can't really give a definitive answer,
but she was one of the few members of the English
department at Auckland University who tried to do
anything to support us last year when the police
stormed onto campus at 5am, broke up a peaceful
student sit-in/occupation which had begun the previous
afternoon, and beat up and arrested a whole lot of my
friends (I was lucky - I'd nipped out for a few (quite
a few) beers!). As far as I know, Michelle made
successful efforts to secure a place in the local
daily paper for a critique of the police actions, and
of the University administration that urged them. I
don't remember the name of the person who wrote it,
but it was a timely show of support.
"It would be also to think about what the
right-wingedness of its NZ
aficionados does to LangPo's theories regarding "the
politics of poetic
form" -- namely, that form is inherently and
ineluctably political, either
progressive or conservative."
Whoa! What a huge Q...think I'lkl have to go away and
nut this out. I may well agree with you, with
reservations.
All the best with your investigations,
Scott
What are Michele Leggott's politics?
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At 01:15 PM 7/17/00 -0700, Scott Hamilton wrote:
>In NZ,
>many of the poets who talk most about the Language
>Poets pursue a right-wing politics, or else valourise
>a disastrous apathy.
This is very interesting. I have been New Zealand
Poetry with great
interest in the last weeks, and would appreciate any
recommendations and
references. Who are the poets that you mean?
What are Michele Leggott's politics?
It would be also to think about what the
right-wingedness of its NZ
aficionados does to LangPo's theories regarding "the
politics of poetic
form" -- namely, that form is inherently and
ineluctably political, either
progressive or conservative.
Philip
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"Why is it not possible for me to doubt that I have never been on the moon? And how
could I try to doubt it? First and foremost, the supposition that perhaps I have
been there would strike me as idle. Nothing would follow from it, nothing be
explained by it. It would not tie in with anything in my life... Philosophical
problems occur when language goes on holiday. We must not separate ideas from life,
we must not be misled by the appearances of sentences: we must investigate the
application of words in individual language-games" - Ludwig Wittgenstein
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