Chris Emery asks some interesting questions, or raises some interesting
problems:
>I think the means of delivery is less important than the content. Although
>the opposite is also a valid procedure for many poets.
Yeah: what do you mean by 'content' here Chris? From what I've read of your
poetry I'd say that form, language, are important, but I'm not sure how I'd
talk about 'content' as such. I'm reading Basil Bunting's lectures on
poetry & he seems to have no time for content at all (which is kind of
funny because his great poems are full of something), but rather seems to
think that rhythm, music are the heart of poetry, & understanding what it
meqans comes a way back, far worse than third, say. And I tend to read
poetry for much else before I worry about what I think of as 'content.'
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>Although the avant-garde has and I'm sure does make use of new materials and
>new media, and that these offer up new possibilities of communication, the
>key thing remains the content rather than the delivery mechanism.
If by content you mean the words in a special order, the rhythm, the music
of the piece, I woudl agree, but it's clear that some people now compose
on-line, or with hypertext or doing something that can only be done
on-screen, & that does change things somewhat/how. Though, like Roger (I
think) I tend to write my poems still, & like them on paper, in books etc...
I'd like to know some answers to this question too:
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>My question though is who are the british -female- avant-garde? I can name a
>few, but can people share some names here?
Doug
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the way of what fell
the lies
like the petals
falling drop
delicately
Phyllis Webb
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