R Clarke's response seems fair, as well, though.
I dont know enough about the politics involved here, but I'm willing
to believe that there are many (poetic) 'regions' in GB, as there are
in Canada, & certainly in the US, which does not even begin to get
into the estranged poetics in many of those 'places.'
Could there be an anthology that fairly represented the whole? I doubt
it.
From what I can see of Todd's writing, & that review, he tries to be
eclectic (& I dont mind that, I'm a bit of that myself), & is not that
interested in sussing out rival poetics but merely in arguing what
serves as the most inclusive register of being there, in Britain. Yes?
Whatever, I have too much poetry I know about & seek out to read
already (spent the weekend, coming out of a discussion on facebook,
rereading some major Olson, as well as Guy Davenport's brilliant essay
on him): now that was getting back into poetry as such.
Doug
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