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Also, I suppose every turn of the wheel is a missed opportunity. Evans wasn't and isn't the only one to reject the postmodern influence while not being mainstream in any way - the small-press scene in the 90's was full of them - remember that back then here in the UK the avant-garde were a very neglected and despised minority. On 16 Jan 2018, at 15:55, Jeffrey Side wrote: > This might be of some passing relevance to this discussion on The Liverpool Poets. > > An article (‘Voices in Denial: Poetry and Post-Culture’) by A. C. Evans I published several years ago addresses the notion of a “popular poetry”. He seems to view the 1960s poetry “revolution” as a missed opportunity in some sense. > > He writes: ‘This essay aims to argue two points: first, that British poetry during the 1960s missed an opportunity, suggested to it by other art forms, to positively engage with mass popular culture and second, that the denial of the “authorial voice” in poetry, due to the influence of various Postmodernist literary theories, should be challenged and rejected.’