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But Paul Farley was there. Yes, he's from Liverpool, but he's as current mainstream as you can get (he's even taken on the word as a badge of honour). Armitage is a busy lad, ubiquitous enough, I expect he was glad of the night off. (It would have been good to hear Ian McMillan on the subject though). The others were from the performance side of things, Cooper Clarke, Benji and Attila. But therein lies a good example of the problem - only one of the legacies was represented - nobody from the ranks of the modernist/experimental generation for whom the Liverpool Poets were a really important part of that zeitgeist. I doubt very much if any of them were asked. I don't expect such an idea would even occur to the makers of the programme. The wider issue to do with the 'establishment's' take on the Liverpool Poets is now history. From initial snobbiness to eventual compartmentalisation. On 7 Oct 2017, at 15:52, Gerard Greenway wrote: > I enjoyed the documentary though thought the 'mainstream' literati still notable by their absence, still, after 50 years. Perhaps I didn't expect Craig Raine. But where was Simon Armitage?