Colloquially Speaking
Patrick McGuinness: Poetry from Britain and Ireland after 1945, 1 April 1999
The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945
edited by Simon Armitage and Robert Crawford.
Viking, 480 pp., £10.99, September 1998,0 670 86829 9 Show More
edited by Simon Armitage and Robert Crawford.
Viking, 480 pp., £10.99, September 1998,
The Firebox: Poetry from Britain and Ireland after 1945
edited by Sean O’Brien.
Picador, 534 pp., £16.99, October 1998,0 330 36918 0 Show More
edited by Sean O’Brien.
Picador, 534 pp., £16.99, October 1998,
“... has still not been taken on board in Britain: they engage with a post-Poundian poetic tradition (Charles Olson, Edward Dorn, Robert Duncan, George Oppen) of a kind that gives modern American poetry its variety and experimentalism. Gunn and Davie are included in both anthologies, but to read their collected poems (the next step after reading Davie’s superb ... ”