That's an interesting thread (the Chris Emery one from 2008)
I suppose one thing that's changed is that much higher proportions of kids attend uni than was the case in the 1960s. Same in the US. It's no longer so easy to clearly separate "elitist" academic institutions from grassroots activity. Some sort of university presence exists within most large conurbations and is likely to be a focus for enquiring people meeting each other.
A specific answer, of sorts, to Emery's reasonable 2008 question was Chris Goode's anthology Better than Language. I'm hoping the forthcoming Out of Everywhere 2 will answer it a lot more.
It's not really clear if the sociological vector still exists by which a smart non-uni-acculturated kid would be likely to come enthusiastically or usefully into contact with the historical Av-G tradition without passing through a university portal. Here in Swindon we occasionally have an alt-poet giving a reading or a workshop, but neither these guests nor their amiably puzzled audience have a particularly youthful demographic.
It's a temptation to conclude that the lively counterculture debates of the sixties now take place, if they do at all, inside uni classrooms, - I mean when they're not virtual debates on facebook. I'd very much like to hear of organized counterexamples. ( I have a feeling that anything we have heard of is likely to be not at the growing tip of culture. )
There is , of course, lots of non-standard poetic activity outside the academy, there always will be, but without organization it isn't really a culture, just individuals of various ages with tenuous friendship connections. That isn't a system that easily makes contact with new poets, thouigh I hope it happens sometimes. But anyway discipleship isn't the important thing. I don't want young poets to be curators; not most of them, anyway. The important thing is not they they meet the tradition, but that they meet each other. The shared concerns, conceptions, language and (not least) ignorance; these are what make a new poetry possible.
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