Way back when, I reviewed Wevill's _Christ on the ice floes_ as a Canadian
book, because he was from Canada (or had he come here ate one point?). But
I recall that even then I foiund it a bit pretentious & defnitely not the
kind of contemporary poetry that spoke to me. Possibly because I was
already too taken up by the New American Poetry & Poetics, & it felt too
British? When what I would have meant by that term was a kind of poetry
associated with the well-known Faber poets but not a lot of the poetry I've
met on this list ( or via, say, Keith Tuma's or the Quartermain
anthologies).
That was then etc...
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
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