Search Results

“... Geoffrey Hill, Elizabeth Daryush and the fraternity of poets anthologised by Andrew Crozier and Tim Longville in A Various Art. It also includes a number of Davie’s poems. If we were to read the adjective ‘British’ in the subtitle of the book as an indication of defensive nationalism, we would be seriously wrong. Davie writes of Charles Tomlinson ...”

“... Now that poetry has been brought into the marketplace, and publishers have discovered how to make a modest profit from it, and now that publication outlets can be found in any good-sized store, so productivity levels in British poetry have increased dramatically. Most poets these days publish a new collection of thirty or forty poems every three or four years; some are more industrious than even that ...”

“... fifth books, Kitchen Poems and The White Stones, from which a representative selection was made by Tim Longville and Andrew Crozier in their 1987 anthology, A Various Art, have a less implacable aspect than the later work – there are over a dozen books, of which For the Monogram is the most recent. The manner of the later Prynne is that of the ...”