The Poetry of Saying: British Poetry and Its Discontents 1950-2000The Poetry of Saying unearths a secret history of fifty years of experimental British verse, revealing and illuminating the daring work of British poets who have spent a half-century rewriting the rules of English poetry. Poet Robert Sheppard considers individual poets such as Roy Fisher and Lee Harwood as well as the role of poetry magazines and the Poetry Society. Sheppard's position at the center of the 1950s British Poetry Revival enables him to offer an insider's commentary on the social, political, and historical background of this particularly fertile and exciting period in British poetry. |
Contents
The Movement Poets and the Movement Orthodoxy | 20 |
The British Poetry Revival 19601978 | 35 |
The Poetry of Roy Fisher | 77 |
The Poetry of Lee Harwood | 103 |
The Persistence of the Movement Orthodoxy in the 1980s | 125 |
Linguistically Innovative Poetry 19782000 | 142 |
The Poetry of | 171 |
Creative Linkage in the Work of Allen Fisher Adrian | 194 |
The Poetry of Bob | 214 |
The Poetics of | 233 |
Bibliography | 251 |
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