They are however, mostly in print………… which is more than one can say for some others. In the cases of Crozier and James, everything is available; Doug Oliver’s Bloodaxe books seem to have dropped out of the catalogue, leaving only his American Selected in print; Wendy Mulford has a big Selected from etruscan, and a subsequent volume from Reality Street. Doug, I fear, is in that penumbral zone after death, waiting to be rediscovered. It will take a while longer, I suspect.
Tony
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> Oblivion of a sort settles on most poetry after a decade or two. I'd agree that Oliver, James, Crozier and Mulford are probably not much read, indeed by most standards they never have been, but I am sure they (in the descending order of visibility proposed above) are more read and more studied than most other a-g poets of their heyday. The important thing, as Ron Silliman always pragmatized, is to be part of a group. I think for example (re James) that besides his Cambridge presence he also along with Finch Torrance Greenslade Trimble and some others makes a nice group of Welsh A-G poets who are thus still relatively studied, read and celebrated compared to e.g. a home counties writer like Paul Brown who is not so neatly bundled, who is loosely connected with too many and intimately connected with too few ... I'm aware that may be a foolish generalization, and there will be many forgotten Welsh poets too ... but isolatoes are always the first to slip over the horizon. I could probably give better examples, but I've already forgotten their names...
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