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I have never understood the necessity for a political avant-garde poetry. I
always thought that such poetry would need to have a widespread readership
to make even a splash in the political sphere; and even that would be
contingent on such poetry being transparent and easily understood by
disinterested readers. This is not something the poetry of Prynne, for
instance, can lay claim to.
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You might try checking out Tom Leonard's blog. The name "Peter Manson" also
springs to mind. Not to speak of nick e. melville.
That's before (although this is prose rather than poetry) we get to pretty
specific political references embedded in the SF novels of Ken MacLeod.
I would have thought Iain [M] Banks has a pretty wide readership.
But then, what do I know?
Robin
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