Just to be pernicketty (sp?), I think Mercian Hymns was pub. 1971.
Does anyone know (or have a convincing theory about) why there are next
to no women poets in the Stand "Poetry of the Committed Individual"
anthology that both Hill and Harrison turn up in? Women not committed
enough?
- Dom
Douglas Clark wrote:
>
> Tony Harrison lives in Newcastle and he and Geoffrey Hill were
> friends when Hill was a lecturer at Leeds. This was at the time
> Jon Silkin was publishing Hill's important early work in Stand.
> (The late 60s). So Geoffrey Hill must have known all about Bunting
> from his contacts. Briggflats was 1966 and Mercian Hymns 1969.
> But personally I see little direct influence of one on the other.
> I think it was more in the literary climate of the time.
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