Lots to argue about, for sure, Andrew, as Jon & Alison have already
shown.
I see a lot in Jon's Yeses & Nos, but would still differ somewhat. For
me, Bunting is major (yeah, what exactly is 'great'?).
But I tend to agree with you on the possibility that more is happening
in the margins, which means away from the centres, London (& New York
often), but those margins needn't be just distance.
So being outside (at least while writing) the mainstream can be of use
(take for instance the New American poets, the best of them).
And I'd have a few Canadians, while you'd have a few Aussies, etc.
Doug
On 9-Dec-08, at 5:13 PM, andrew burke wrote:
> Well, I argued with that list, certainly, but have often felt there
> was a
> progressiveness and an essential energy in USA and other post-colonial
> literature in English that was not shown by the British poets. A
> sweeping
> generalisation, surely, but I find I go to the US stacks in the
> library for
> pleasure more often than the British - although Edwin Morgan is one
> of my
> favourite all time poets, and the great Irish are in a league of
> their own.
>
> I put the article up for discussion, to expand the subjects
> currently on
> offer at p'etc. The list needs a heart-starter or two.
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