Alison, I agree with the quote from Barker. Yes, poetry can also operate in the way he envisions plays/theatre doing. My criticism of the efficacy of it applying to innovative poetry is more to do with problems of that poetry’s comprehensibility. It would be going round in circles for me to repeat my views on this, though, so I won’t.
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Jeffrey's rather romantic critiques of the political efficacy of innovative practice
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