Social Arrangements
John Bayley, 30 December 1982
The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry
edited by Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion.
Penguin, 208 pp., £1.95, October 1982,0 14 042283 8 Show More
edited by Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion.
Penguin, 208 pp., £1.95, October 1982,
The Rattle Bag
edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes.
Faber, 498 pp., £10, October 1982,0 571 11966 2 Show More
edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes.
Faber, 498 pp., £10, October 1982,
“... only by the previous Penguin of 1962, The New Poetry, selected and introduced by A. Alvarez. Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion are well aware that there is something comically factitious about the stance that has to be adopted by each new spokesman on the poetry scene – ‘we are not,’ they say, ‘the first anthologists this century to have made such a ... ”