Keston: I take it the 20th-c. poetry anthology is the Edna Longley one? A
quick sketch might be welcome, though just knowing the editor's (ahem)
predilections I can guess its outlines. As you know there'll be a riposte
to it in the shape of the forthcoming Oxford book, though I can't predict
how the battle of the books will go. -- Curiously enough I just got an email
from an occasional correspondent from the other side of the
mainstream/avantgarde divide expressing esteem for the Bloodaxe book, &
stating that Longley's editorial principles may be gleaned from a piece on
anthologies in her new book _Poetry and Posterity_. (Of course my
correspondent is someone who thinks that virtually the only UK or Irish poet
of significance born postwar is Paul Muldoon, & claims that Michael Longley
is one of the six greatest living UK/Irish poets.)
A perhaps telling anecdote on Longley (E.) may be picked out of the
archives, incidentally: go to:
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/british-poets/1998-07/0180.html
all best --N
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