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At 01:15 PM 7/17/00 -0700, Scott Hamilton wrote: >In NZ, >many of the poets who talk most about the Language >Poets pursue a right-wing politics, or else valourise >a disastrous apathy. This is very interesting. I have been New Zealand Poetry with great interest in the last weeks, and would appreciate any recommendations and references. Who are the poets that you mean? What are Michele Leggott's politics? It would be also to think about what the right-wingedness of its NZ aficionados does to LangPo's theories regarding "the politics of poetic form" -- namely, that form is inherently and ineluctably political, either progressive or conservative. Philip %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%