Dear Clifford Duffy,
My god, where to begin to answer your questions! Allen Fisher has given you
a comprehensive answer on Jeff Nuttall. As to "Is there a Irish or British
"movement" like the language poets?" the answer is there have been and are
various movements that are akin to, precede, follow, or are in creative
opposition to the "language" poets, but they don't have handy labels so
have generally been unidentified since about 1960. Check out the anthology
Conductors of Chaos, edited by Iain Sinclair, published by mass paperback
publishers Picador, or Out of Everywhere, an anthology published by my own
press Reality Street Editions (ed Maggie O'Sullivan), which includes
Language-ey US women poets as well as a selection from Canada and the UK
(available via Small Press Distribution or Marginal Distribution), or, if
you can find it (out of print) The New British Poets (Paladin, 1988) or A
Various Art (same publisher). Check out small presses listed at the
Electronic Poetry Centre at Buffalo. Continue to subscribe to this list and
find out a little that way. Most of us, as Allen indicated, are pretty
bored with Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney. There are a lot more interesting
poets around.
Best wishes,
Ken Edwards
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