Sam
I don't read A Motion nor many of that 'line,' & tend to see, as do a
lot of your compatriots, like those gathered in Hampson & Barry's The
Scope mof the Possible, a rather sad refusal of modernISM in much
mainstream english poetry. My resources, then, are North American, &
recently, Austrlian & New Zealandish. On the other hand, I met Robert
Hampson thids past summer in Krakow, & liked him, & the poems he read
very much. Of course he's officially not on the radar of english
poetry, as noticed in the major journals.
In Canada, we have a large & fine public reading system, supported by
the Canada Council, so most writers have learned how to m ake their
work count in front of an audience.
Doug
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Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
(780) 492 0521
That muffled sound behind you: our gorilla
boarded up within the wall - how we wrestled with that one!
Both dreaming at the same time.
Remember its smeared features, how it twisted in our grasp?
Here - taste.
Diana Hartog
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