On Mar 28, 2006, at 4:20 PM, Jill Jones wrote:
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>
> Although I think that, broadly, the New York poets (O"Hara more
> than Ashbery in some circles, I suspect) are and have been a big
> influence along one line of Australian poetry (ie, loosely
> speaking, one side of the poetry wars, the generation of 68 as it's
> often referred to), my feeling is that a great many Australian
> poets either still look to more the, and I'm probably being a
> little inaccurate here, Deep Image line (oh image is big big big
> for a lot of them) or the more trad look back to Blighty, though at
> that point I couldn't quite pinpoint to whom.
>
> There's a crowd that heads in the European and/or Spanish/Sth
> American direction as well, but that's a more recent push and they
> would come at that from varying other traditions or curricula, if
> you will. Way back Brennan, of course, was interested in the French
> symbolists and so there's another thread, which Adamson, to some
> extent, pulls into now.
>
>
when vaguely in touch with Australian work back when living ion the
UK in the 70/80ies, a core reference was Kris Hemensley & his work
and mag — that gave me a sense that there was a following, or at
least an interest in the Olson/Duncan US poetics, and in the original
Deep Image people (i.e. Robert Kelly, Jerome Rothenberg, rather than
the cheap imitators à la Bly). Was I wrong or has that interest
petered out?
Pierre
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