On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 17:09:05 -0200 (EDT), Jorge wrote:
>The last British anthology I knew was "The New British Poetry. 1968-1988", edited by Allnutt, D'Aguiar, Edwards and Mottram and published
>in Paladin in 1988. There are 84 poets in 360 pages. I imagine that in the
>last ten years there must be new ones printed.
Jorge, you must know enough of us by now to know that every reply
posted ought to begin "personally speaking..." ...
Personally speaking I recognise so much of what you say about trying
to understand the poetry of another country (perhaps even ones own).
I've found it a universal truth that the first group of people you
speak to predicate the response you get right the way down the line -
who comes forward, who stays away - and it's so difficult, once
started, to start over. But, one tries to stay even...
Several of the members of this list were in the Paladin "New British
Poetry", you won't hear much dissent about it here. Since then there's
been (imperfectly from memory; stop me if I miss anything out, gang):
The Penguin Anthology whose name I can't quite recall ed. Motion and
Morrison;
The New Poetry ed. Hulse, Kennedy and someone from Bloodaxe;
Conductors of Chaos ed. Sinclair from Picador;
The Penguin Book of British n Irish Poetry Since 1945 ed Armitage
(sorry Doug, had to say it) and Crawford;
Firebox: British and Irish Poetry Since 1945 ed S. O'Brien (Picador)
And there's some nonsense from Wesleyan UP called OTHER: British and
Irish Poetry since 1970 ed. Caddel and Quartermain, due December and
orderable from an internet bookshop near you now.
Croneyism? Me? Onyerbike. I look down the contents of Other and
realise I'm actually *friends with* only a miniscule proportion of
them. But they write this great poetry, see, so I keep stumbling along
with them...
RC
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