At 8:35 AM +0100 13/8/02, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> If you look
>back to Allen Curnow's early anthologies, you'll find a definite nod mainly
>to 40s British poetry. In a way, it's really (as I feel to a degree in
>Australia) with The New American Poetry that things get shaken up (as in
>Canada too, but we're right on the sidelines here).
Maybe - though on the other hand it could seem merely to be the
replacement of one kind of colonisation with another - and poets like
Slessor and Webb were writing fantastic poetry well before then. Not
that I subscribe to any kind of inward looking nationalism...
Best
A
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