There was poetry by Alan Davies in Alembic 4 (Winter 1975 /76) and by James Sherry in Reality Studios 1.1 (April 1978) - the only copies I have to hand here of each. There was, I think, some work by Sherry in Alembic - and 'My Life' would have appeared in Alembic 9 (if Alembic 9 had appeared. There was 'linguistically innovative poetry' being published in England contemparaneous with and independent of L=A=N=Getc. Robert Hampson > ---------- > From: R I Caddel[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Reply To: R I Caddel > Sent: 20 July 1999 09:27 > To: british n irish poets > Subject: Re: brit-po-lang > > Thanks to Cris for his good post. Happy to go with his people / talk > before writing / writing mode of transmission - it's so obviously a good > way, and something we miss out on frequently in Durham - certainly on that > occasion - so it's taken me years of non-systematic gap-plugging in the > way I described to in any sense "catch up". > > Yes, I'm sure I remember primary langpo poets published in UK before > L=A=N=GUAGE arrived here, but haven't dug around to find the evidence. Is > there a bibliographer in the house? > > RC > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%