Strange to see Larkin in a parental role ('Why did he think adding meant increase?...'). The little I know of this is that these 4 names rarely crop up and the students here are much more likely to be reading Alice Oswald and Anne Carson, so maybe it's an inherent tendency in creative writing courses to focus on the 'now'.
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> On 20 Oct 2016, at 19:24, Peter Riley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Exactly as described for the States, the poetry field as defined now in British creative-writing and prize culture, which is a large, active and ever increasing number of young poets, is very much a "now" thing, with a set of parental poets behind it (mainly Larkin, Heaney, Hughes, Plath) and that is the extent of the history.
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