Catalogue of this site
Catalogue of blogs on this site, or catablog
This is a sort of 'contents list' of the texts on this blog site, which may make the material easier to use. The entries are in the order in which the articles appear on screen. Only items connected to the 'Affluence' project are listed.
“Affluence” is my 7-volume work on British poetry 1960-97, the "heptagonal vortex". The "vortex" is because it goes around, not following a chronological sequence. The first volume came out in 2003 and the last one in 2018. The systematic work is in the seven books in the series and the blog postings are unsystematic and round the edges. Not everything fitted into the books- whether brilliant late ideas or fits of neurotic indecision, material poured in which wasn't printed. Books get frozen, they have hard edges. Also, you try to give them thematic unity. These numerous moments of indecision deal with poets I wasn't certain about, or also ones who are good but who didn't fit into any of the books. No doubt you could find 1000 other things I never wrote about. Click on the title to be instantly transported to the text of your wishes, at least where I have been able to find an address to copy. The link is to the right month, not always the right post within a month.
90. George Szirtes
another gifted poet active in the 70s whom I missed out while writing in extenso and compendiously. Embarrassing!
89. Charged Landscapes: Philip Pacey
another 70s poet who doesn't seem to be part of collective memory
88. Lost poets: Heath-Stubbs, John Smith, BC Leale
three poets I looked at as part of research on the 1970s
This is a sort of 'contents list' of the texts on this blog site, which may make the material easier to use. The entries are in the order in which the articles appear on screen. Only items connected to the 'Affluence' project are listed.
“Affluence” is my 7-volume work on British poetry 1960-97, the "heptagonal vortex". The "vortex" is because it goes around, not following a chronological sequence. The first volume came out in 2003 and the last one in 2018. The systematic work is in the seven books in the series and the blog postings are unsystematic and round the edges. Not everything fitted into the books- whether brilliant late ideas or fits of neurotic indecision, material poured in which wasn't printed. Books get frozen, they have hard edges. Also, you try to give them thematic unity. These numerous moments of indecision deal with poets I wasn't certain about, or also ones who are good but who didn't fit into any of the books. No doubt you could find 1000 other things I never wrote about. Click on the title to be instantly transported to the text of your wishes, at least where I have been able to find an address to copy. The link is to the right month, not always the right post within a month.
90. George Szirtes
another gifted poet active in the 70s whom I missed out while writing in extenso and compendiously. Embarrassing!
89. Charged Landscapes: Philip Pacey
another 70s poet who doesn't seem to be part of collective memory
88. Lost poets: Heath-Stubbs, John Smith, BC Leale
three poets I looked at as part of research on the 1970s
87. Thoughts on Ken Smith
I had a re-think about Ken Smith after visiting the event to celebrate the new Collected at the Poetry Centre in Leeds, and talking about him to other people at the event.
86.5 Michael Ayres
86. Memories of John Hartley Williams
a major poet occupying a point in cultural space which new structural development seems to have obscured from view
85. The prism
of my crystal fears: a new angle on New Romantic poetry
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84. The
short sharp anguish of silks: Brian Marley Brian Marley
a poet whom everyone who remembers the 70s loves.
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83. Audrey Beecham
and melodrama
analysing this "lost" Forties poet. She got books out in 1957 and 1980.
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82 Fluid
Jewels: James Kirkup 1918-2009
another Forties poet I managed to leave out (except for some stuff in
'Centre-Periphery'). He announced his retirement in 1963 but lived for another 46 years. People seem to have forgotten who he is. | ||
81. Hue,
sodality, eremite: Jack Beeching 1922-2001
Unforgivable that I didn't write about this unusual and long-lived poet.
Key is partly his teenage communism and post-1956 radical anti-communism. | ||
80. The madness
of Tristan: Eric Mottram, Local Movement(1973)
Eric wasn't so hot as a poet but analysing his complex works can be
interesting. | ||
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Iain Sinclair's great poem is full of quotations - an analysis is helpful.
Bad Science for the most part. Voices green and purple reverberating around the walls of a punk vortex. | ||
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C-P talks about regional cultures of Britain as they express
themselves in poetry. | ||
77. John Wain
(another poet not discussed in 'Affluence")
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76, Paul Brown
discussion of the career of this 70s avant-garde poet. Actual Size, Transgravity Press.
http://angelexhaust.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/missingshadows-reported-to-police-paul.html
This essay is by way of an apology for not treating Hill systematically within my
7-volume work on British poetry 1996-97. Most of his best poetry is later than 1997.
7-volume work on British poetry 1996-97. Most of his best poetry is later than 1997.
Review of an unbelievably bad 1989 survey of modern British poetry which simply left everyone out. Effect was that I spent 15 years putting everyone fabulous back in.
Sandeep Parmar (editorial in issue 31 of The Wolf, 2014) has just published an essay about ethnic minorities in poetry where she says that people are unwilling to talk about the subject. This seems to irritate people so I think it’s beneficial to do some such talking. This is not going to end up giving everyone gold stars.
This is a book about poetry 1990-2010 which I swore not to write but which began in 2011 and published in 2015. A largely unmapped landscape … about which I don’t know enough. PN Review didn't like it.
An essay on a Welsh poet largely missed out of ‘Affluence’, based on his 2004 selected poems.
After completing Affluence I was concerned at the small number of women poets described in it and began, slowly, to read some forgotten women poets of mid-century. I thought it might be possible to recuperate some of them. Nott was a mid-century poet who is largely forgotten but who wrote poems unlike anyone else.
Commentary on Sabine Coelsch-Foisner's 3-volume work on mid-century British women poets. Revisit to a blog I wrote about 4 years ago. (see item 40) Then, I regretted its stylistic qualities while being glad to have a list of women poets one could go off and work on.
Although partly about the Independence Referendum this also has material on poets Edwin Muir and George Mackay Brown.
When I was in Germany in 2011 someone asked me about the poet Michael Hamburger, who died in 2007. I had a firm idea that his poetry wasn’t very good but was aware I hadn’t read very much of his work.
this was published in the Cambridge Review as an introduction to the first publication of a Charles Madge poem from 1950. The poem is of interest partly because it is a sound from a silenced moment of history, the mid-century death. At that time the scene repressed the most ambitious poetry and hid it from view - something which went on until the 1990s, roughly.
Andrew Duncan interviewed Gavin Selerie for Angel Exhaust between November 2011 and January 2013.
Part of a project published in Angel Exhaust 14 and now expanded. The project dealt with Left poetry in each decade.
This is a “find list” which shows where individual poets are discussed across the various volumes of ‘Affluence’. hundreds of them. It goes on for ever. Why are there so many?
This is a re-visit to a book composed circa 1993-5 and published in 2003, in case my views had moved so far in the intervening years that I had to denounce or un-say parts of FCon. I revisited some key concepts in ‘The Long 1950s’. This note is probably of zero interest unless you have read both the books already.
60a Long poems of the 1970s
This now lists 100 long poems from that era. Obviously a topic of research.
60a Long poems of the 1970s
This now lists 100 long poems from that era. Obviously a topic of research.
This is all related to British poetry 1960-97 but it is miscellaneous. The numbers raise questions about how the poets I choose to write about (150 or so) were selected.
58 The Long Poem of the 1970s
After
the political upsurge of 1968 poets ventured into a new complexity,
where long poems played a particular role of building autonomy for
the poetic text by constructing large-scale complexes of meaning,
freeing the parts by means of the whole. The decline of the long poem
was an index of pessimism about the new cultural possibilities. list of 100 long poems.
57 remarks on gay sensibility in poetry
As
I completely failed to discuss the distinctive gay sensibility in
poetry, these are emails from someone (Daniel Andersson) explaining
it to me. Pretty useful. How many more huge holes in my work are
there. Ulp.
56 More on Anthony Thwaite
More
info about the poetry of Anthony Thwaite from a travel book of his
which I found in a library sale.
notes
around or under the book which I published in 2012, and which is an
attempt to write a history of the mainstream. Or moments from such a
history. Could we say a catenary, a diadem...a stutter. Affluence
could not be complete without a volume about the mainstream. It talks
almost exclusively about brilliant and exciting mainstream poets
because it wouldn’t be interesting otherwise.
There
was an annual which listed all the works of poetry published in a
given year. It only lasted 4 years as poets aren’t so interested in
other poets. It didn’t sell. Anyway if you look through a volume of
this, and you happen to recognise most of the names, due to a life
spent hanging out on the poetry scene, it is very evocative. The
theme is again all the stuff that I didn’t ever write about.
Because it wasn’t very good. Given that not all 770
books published in this year (June to June) (and plus 88 anthologies)
were desperately necessary, how does ‘under-representation’ connect
to ‘over-publishing’?
Victor
Carroon is a character in a 1953 TV serial by Nigel Kneale. This blog
explores iconographic links between Nigel Kneale and Eric Mottram. So
it does involve poetry somewhere.
52 Poetry numbers again
Drops aesthetic appreciation to look at the overall dimensions of poetry publishing. This might give us some insight into 'under-representation'. The articulate write more & the better educated tend to be more articulate. Sigh. As if we didn't all know that at the age of 15. All those people you wish would articulate their feelings and all those other people you wish would stop articulating, please. That was absolutely masses. Now? yes now.
51 London School yadayada yada
Describes
some of the problems with the whole slew of 'London School' to
explain why everyone ignores them, and points to the classic status of
some of the London poets.
A
close look at a single issue of ‘Poetry Review’ for
1978 which shows an early but critical stage of the developing
mainstream hatred of the innovative sector. The insults to drive
people away may be the origin of a border which keeps separate tribes
apart. The development of a language to embody opinions which reject
modernity without knowing what it is - the laying down of a
pseudo-knowledge in a pseudo-description. A neo-conservative coup.
Chapter
circa 2002 deleted from 'Silent Rules'.
This
is an update of a list that was printed in 'Failure of Conservatism'.
Benefiting from further reading, it has an extra 30 or so titles. It
still runs from 1960 to 1997. Does this mean the first version was
horribly incomplete? Er.
47 More on Council of Heresy
notes
around or under the book 'Council of Heresy' (2009), which is about
the heresy of writing off poets without understanding them but also a
bit about poets not writing comprehensibly. The book sets out to
explain how to read modern poetry. Wow! not a bad idea! When you set
the edges of a book, there are always bits that don’t fit inside
them. But these could be visible in a blog.
46. Mid-century poets
Very brief capsule comments on poets active 1930-60. tries to
get at all significant poets in that period.
45 < 45 Handlist of late 20th century poets (part 1)
Brief notes on poets of the late-20th century
No notes on poets since 1990 because these are in a book called “Poetry Boom”.
44 Handlist of late 20th century poets (part 2)
Summary of work on poetry 1960-97 in the form of a handlist, part 2.
42 Psychoceramics again: ley lines etc.
Further light shed on a few passages of Allen Fisher’s “Place” by looking at sources on ley-lines and geopathology. This is only about 1% of the thematic material of 'Place'.
41 poems missing from the record
Notes on unpublished or un-republished poems and on doctoring the published record
40 Mid-century women’s poetry
Discussion of the general absence of women poets from the mid-century scene in Britain and the opposition between “femininity” and “feminism”. Comments on a phase when the share of women poets in new publication was maybe 12% - the 'valley bottom' from which it grew to 50%.
39 Sexuality and the body as phantoms terrorising poetry; from Anglican Mass to performance artists
Essay of circa 2000 which discusses changes in the way sexuality is discussed in poetry.
One of the big changes of the 1960s was the ability to present sexual behaviour in art and the opportunity to talk about the central relationship of people’s lives in a serious way. This offered particular problems for poetry, where the level and complexity of people’s inhibitions were taken as the qualification for them using high language in a legitimate way.
38 Self-adornment in sixties poetry
Interpretation of the new aspects of poetry in the 1960s through decoration and self-display. discusses the art of the 1960s in terms of its exaltation of the person of the artist and the assimilation of verbal art to self-adornment. As if the excessive amount of information flying around demanded a stronger projection of a coherent and personal message, a stronger beam. Elements in 'educated' art were also criticising the artist and trying to diminish the personality of any artist, but this enrolment of entire parts of the world in the task of self-adornment was happening too.
37. In
Furthest Ferengistan
we ask the question 'can a poet have a foreign policy without also having gunboats, regiments of dragoons, investment banks, and so on?'
36. The Unlearned and the Unlearning
part of a project to deal with the entire cultural field by recovering the history of genres. This gets away from individuals altogether because they offer too much information. This piece deals with the idea of ‘naive’ poetry and related concepts such as myth, folk poetry, the naively grandiose, etc. It discusses outsider poetry and the role of the naive, the folk, the non-academic, in a poetic universe which withdraws from instrumental reason. The question of whether the professionals are the best poets or even whether they are disequipped for poetry by being educated.
35 Film as the skin of imaginary organs; or, chichi
an exploration of film and the work of John Wieners. Evaluates Doris Day and Jennifer Jones as the legitimate subjects of poetry in the modern era.
34. The history of the temporary: oral poetry
again tries to find the overall shape of poetry by defining one of its genres at the frontier with other media. Makes significant generalisations about oral poetry while claiming that you can’t write a history of something which is evanescent and happening in a hundred places every Friday might. So why am I writing analytical prose about it. Evokes Martin Booth’s enthusiastic book about the boom in readings circa 1964-74 while still finding that he only picks up the events he goes to and still doesn’t recover the whole history. Not even sure he captures what he saw.
we ask the question 'can a poet have a foreign policy without also having gunboats, regiments of dragoons, investment banks, and so on?'
36. The Unlearned and the Unlearning
part of a project to deal with the entire cultural field by recovering the history of genres. This gets away from individuals altogether because they offer too much information. This piece deals with the idea of ‘naive’ poetry and related concepts such as myth, folk poetry, the naively grandiose, etc. It discusses outsider poetry and the role of the naive, the folk, the non-academic, in a poetic universe which withdraws from instrumental reason. The question of whether the professionals are the best poets or even whether they are disequipped for poetry by being educated.
35 Film as the skin of imaginary organs; or, chichi
an exploration of film and the work of John Wieners. Evaluates Doris Day and Jennifer Jones as the legitimate subjects of poetry in the modern era.
34. The history of the temporary: oral poetry
again tries to find the overall shape of poetry by defining one of its genres at the frontier with other media. Makes significant generalisations about oral poetry while claiming that you can’t write a history of something which is evanescent and happening in a hundred places every Friday might. So why am I writing analytical prose about it. Evokes Martin Booth’s enthusiastic book about the boom in readings circa 1964-74 while still finding that he only picks up the events he goes to and still doesn’t recover the whole history. Not even sure he captures what he saw.
33. Obscure
and conventional poets; or, Bodgers
In which we take a step away from the sunlit heights of talent to look at an anthology of low attainment. Surely a feature of the scene is that most poets stringing poems together aren’t actually very gifted. Does this give us insight into a few thousand ineffective writers and their shed in the culture industry? does the state of not being conscious bring us consciousness?
This is part of an analysis of the poetic landscape around 1995 through 15 anthologies, mainly recorded in 'Silent Rules'.
32 Was there a School of London?
This recounts a nostalgic anecdote from the anarchist 70s in order to illustrate the ‘ideoles’ idea.
31 review of 'Departures' by David Wevill
the selected poems of one of the most significant poets to emerge in the 1960s
30 Equivocation 2
Attempts to use some incomplete figures to recover large-scale background changes in the scene over the past 50 years.
29. My errors and some numbers too
Ingeniously slides off from accusations of partiality by doing some burrowing and developing figures which might show that 6000 poets were publishing in this period so my partiality is utterly forgivable. Luminous honesty, or what?
28.Cohesion,or parataxis and hypotaxis
In which we take a step away from the sunlit heights of talent to look at an anthology of low attainment. Surely a feature of the scene is that most poets stringing poems together aren’t actually very gifted. Does this give us insight into a few thousand ineffective writers and their shed in the culture industry? does the state of not being conscious bring us consciousness?
This is part of an analysis of the poetic landscape around 1995 through 15 anthologies, mainly recorded in 'Silent Rules'.
32 Was there a School of London?
This recounts a nostalgic anecdote from the anarchist 70s in order to illustrate the ‘ideoles’ idea.
31 review of 'Departures' by David Wevill
the selected poems of one of the most significant poets to emerge in the 1960s
30 Equivocation 2
Attempts to use some incomplete figures to recover large-scale background changes in the scene over the past 50 years.
29. My errors and some numbers too
Ingeniously slides off from accusations of partiality by doing some burrowing and developing figures which might show that 6000 poets were publishing in this period so my partiality is utterly forgivable. Luminous honesty, or what?
28.Cohesion,or parataxis and hypotaxis
Continues
the programme of ‘a primer of the avant garde’ by analysing the
distinction between parataxis and subordinating syntactic patterns,
and pointing to this distinction as a key innovation in the ‘new
poetry’ in the 1960s.
This discusses the lack of accurate terms for discussing modern poetry and wistfully pointed to the precision of rock vocabulary. Also includes a definition of 'mainstream'.
In the cause of better mutual understanding we explore some classificatory terms, and especially the word 'mainstream'. Argues that rock criticism has terms specific to its subject matter and the criticism of modern poetry does not.
considers
the special theory of time by which the individual is locked in ‘the
cube of now’ where they can genuinely make decisions and so be
truly conscious and so be authentic. Interprets some Spender poems as
versions of Nikolai Berdyaev and his theology by which everything
since the Crucifixion is an apocalyptic ‘end time’ where the
social order is in disintegration and the individual must reveal
themselves. Considers this attitude of ‘Christian existentialism’
as an imperative to value ‘personal style’ in poetry.
25. Equivocation,
1: The impossibility of comparison
We consider the project of comparing poets and ask whether it is possible to talk about historical change without accepting that various poets of the 1950s (let’s say) are ‘equivalent’ to various poets of the 1970s or 1990s. Is it possible to recover any story apart from the life curves of vocal individuals, for example by studying genres?
24. Legitimacy, impersonality, and role-detachment
a talk about ‘the society of the poem’ which connects means within poetry to the meaning of linguistic styles in the society outside poetry. In which we take on sociology in order to disengage certain class-related patterns in speech as recurring in poetic language.
23. The delivery of intimacy
Offers another interpretation of the whole era by positing that there is a ‘modern’ family pattern in which the education of the child is a central thing, and also with a high affective investment in the child. Further, that the poet has slipped into the role of the ‘favourite child’ subject to doting affection by the readers as quasi parents, and whose intellectual development is the realm within which the poem unfolds. Further that the ‘action’ in the poetic world has to do with struggles to occupy these roles, which by their nature most people must lose most of the time. Should poetry be either egocentric or autobiographical? why does personal style matter?
22 Robert Conquest and Charles Williams
an approach to the English 'central ideology' of empiricism via a forgotten episode from 1957
21. Carcanet and Some Contemporary Poets
In pursuit of a 'destruction of inhibitions' in which mainstream editors began accepting poetry with less of the conventional limits, and a 'new mainstream' emerged to exploit that, we look at the ideological origins of Carcanet and at a puzzling 1983 anthology. This is very detailed and connects to the 'ideoles' concept, getting away from a schematic history of ideology to look at concrete individuals making concrete decisions.
20. Time engulfed by subjectivity: historicism
Follows the 'cube of now' by discussing the special view of history which holds that everything is obsolete except a tiny strip whose location is known only to the avant garde elite. Not surprisingly, this view is divisive and in fact may offer one of the key lines of division within the poetic field. Looks at the ‘ideology of dominance’ of modernisation, the myth of legitimacy.
19 Sub-prime: the idea of the cliché
points out that poetry is everywhere on the edge of a big centre of material which it can’t use. This material has become worn out because it is attractive, by definition. tries to inject consciousness back into your unconscious realms. Could this be a mistake?
18. Privatisation and eccentricity
As an overall interpretation of the role of poets within the cultural field, we consider the notion of the eccentric, the outsider, the person who is free because they do not spend all day going through conventional patterns of consciousness.
17. Coherence and Exceptionalism
Tries to set up an explanation of distinctive features of the whole era by positing the disruption of perceptual expectations by larger real-world shapes as a satire on bureaucratic social models and their expectations. The anomaly as liberation. Literary convention as a form of bureaucracy that asks to be overthrown.
16. Rivals of poetry
tries to find the overall shape by reaching the edges of the poetic field, in this case by discussing its borders with adjacent genres and media whose extent limits the extent of poetry, whose failings open the borders of poetry. This is the topography. Yet poetry is parasitic on every other medium, because it can suck up information from everywhere and is ‘downstream’ of information flows rather than something primary.
15.Marginalia to Affluence
another collection of ideas which overflowed the project, or which didn't fit, or which I never worked out properly. This one partly about the Gaelic language.
14 Dunstan Thompson
another journey back into the forgotten 1940s, scripted as a film noir mystery
13. deleted by accident The Long Poem of the 1970s . see item 58
12. Allotria and Allegros (Allott)
A lot of the work I did is about anthologies, because they are a mid-level between the individual and the entire scene, and because they show the external career of a poet as well as part of the internal one. One I spent a lot of time on was Kenneth Allott’s anthology of poetry 1918-60. I didn’t put this in the book because finally it wasn’t a very good anthology, and it was a description of what was there before 1960 while my study began in 1960. This essay is mainly about the limits of individual choice, it starts with Allott and then turns the same criticisms on me.
We consider the project of comparing poets and ask whether it is possible to talk about historical change without accepting that various poets of the 1950s (let’s say) are ‘equivalent’ to various poets of the 1970s or 1990s. Is it possible to recover any story apart from the life curves of vocal individuals, for example by studying genres?
24. Legitimacy, impersonality, and role-detachment
a talk about ‘the society of the poem’ which connects means within poetry to the meaning of linguistic styles in the society outside poetry. In which we take on sociology in order to disengage certain class-related patterns in speech as recurring in poetic language.
23. The delivery of intimacy
Offers another interpretation of the whole era by positing that there is a ‘modern’ family pattern in which the education of the child is a central thing, and also with a high affective investment in the child. Further, that the poet has slipped into the role of the ‘favourite child’ subject to doting affection by the readers as quasi parents, and whose intellectual development is the realm within which the poem unfolds. Further that the ‘action’ in the poetic world has to do with struggles to occupy these roles, which by their nature most people must lose most of the time. Should poetry be either egocentric or autobiographical? why does personal style matter?
22 Robert Conquest and Charles Williams
an approach to the English 'central ideology' of empiricism via a forgotten episode from 1957
21. Carcanet and Some Contemporary Poets
In pursuit of a 'destruction of inhibitions' in which mainstream editors began accepting poetry with less of the conventional limits, and a 'new mainstream' emerged to exploit that, we look at the ideological origins of Carcanet and at a puzzling 1983 anthology. This is very detailed and connects to the 'ideoles' concept, getting away from a schematic history of ideology to look at concrete individuals making concrete decisions.
20. Time engulfed by subjectivity: historicism
Follows the 'cube of now' by discussing the special view of history which holds that everything is obsolete except a tiny strip whose location is known only to the avant garde elite. Not surprisingly, this view is divisive and in fact may offer one of the key lines of division within the poetic field. Looks at the ‘ideology of dominance’ of modernisation, the myth of legitimacy.
19 Sub-prime: the idea of the cliché
points out that poetry is everywhere on the edge of a big centre of material which it can’t use. This material has become worn out because it is attractive, by definition. tries to inject consciousness back into your unconscious realms. Could this be a mistake?
18. Privatisation and eccentricity
As an overall interpretation of the role of poets within the cultural field, we consider the notion of the eccentric, the outsider, the person who is free because they do not spend all day going through conventional patterns of consciousness.
17. Coherence and Exceptionalism
Tries to set up an explanation of distinctive features of the whole era by positing the disruption of perceptual expectations by larger real-world shapes as a satire on bureaucratic social models and their expectations. The anomaly as liberation. Literary convention as a form of bureaucracy that asks to be overthrown.
16. Rivals of poetry
tries to find the overall shape by reaching the edges of the poetic field, in this case by discussing its borders with adjacent genres and media whose extent limits the extent of poetry, whose failings open the borders of poetry. This is the topography. Yet poetry is parasitic on every other medium, because it can suck up information from everywhere and is ‘downstream’ of information flows rather than something primary.
15.Marginalia to Affluence
another collection of ideas which overflowed the project, or which didn't fit, or which I never worked out properly. This one partly about the Gaelic language.
14 Dunstan Thompson
another journey back into the forgotten 1940s, scripted as a film noir mystery
13. deleted by accident The Long Poem of the 1970s . see item 58
12. Allotria and Allegros (Allott)
A lot of the work I did is about anthologies, because they are a mid-level between the individual and the entire scene, and because they show the external career of a poet as well as part of the internal one. One I spent a lot of time on was Kenneth Allott’s anthology of poetry 1918-60. I didn’t put this in the book because finally it wasn’t a very good anthology, and it was a description of what was there before 1960 while my study began in 1960. This essay is mainly about the limits of individual choice, it starts with Allott and then turns the same criticisms on me.
11. Ideoli
asks whether there is any big story that can be composed from a million everyday transactions in the poetic world, and tries to locate a 'middle tier' of events around poetry which is not completely superficial but yet not abstract and unreal. Posits a tier of ‘ideoles’, smaller and more menial than ideas, as the routines of practical intelligence which we need to capture in order to explain what actually happened.
10. personal statement on 'Affluence, Welfare, and Fine Words'
partly a response to critics
9. map of 7-volume work on modern British poetry
Since the work is scattered over seven volumes you might want a map of the whole. lists the poets discussed. you have to buy the books to get them.
asks whether there is any big story that can be composed from a million everyday transactions in the poetic world, and tries to locate a 'middle tier' of events around poetry which is not completely superficial but yet not abstract and unreal. Posits a tier of ‘ideoles’, smaller and more menial than ideas, as the routines of practical intelligence which we need to capture in order to explain what actually happened.
10. personal statement on 'Affluence, Welfare, and Fine Words'
partly a response to critics
9. map of 7-volume work on modern British poetry
Since the work is scattered over seven volumes you might want a map of the whole. lists the poets discussed. you have to buy the books to get them.
8. Death
Cult and Dog Star
talk on Richard Aldington's 1935 poem, 'Life Quest' and its iconographic links with Iain Sinclair. this is an approach to 'long poems of the 70s' by asking where English poets began to be interested in archaeology and anthropology.
7. Metakaluptical notes on the 1940s: the shared 40s project; or, The neo-Romantic Agony.
Notes on a large number of writers involved in the Neo-Romantic movement. Supplement to the work on the 1940s in 'Origins of the Underground'.
6. Eric Mottram, 'Peace Projects 4'
commentary on a poem by Eric Mottram, to follow up discussion on his interest in Henry Corbin, which I expounded as a connection between him and the ‘anti-modern‘ poet Kathleen Raine. ’PP4’ incorporates a prose narrative by Sohravardi as discussed by Corbin.
5. Accident Adventure, or: shopping list - the sequel...
I published a 'shopping list' of good books of British poetry published around 1960 to 1997. This is a follow-up which adds information I didn't have then. 350 titles? who could ask for more.
4. Affluence project: central ethos
description of 'Affluence Welfare and Fine Words', a 7-volume project on British poetry 1960-97.
3. Council of heresy (2)
extra material on ‘The Council of Heresy’, a book on poetry
2. Origins of the Underground
bibliographical essay explaining the background to Origins of the Underground, a book on poetry and the links between the 1940s and the 1960s
1. 'The council of heresy'
essay on sources for this 2009 book
talk on Richard Aldington's 1935 poem, 'Life Quest' and its iconographic links with Iain Sinclair. this is an approach to 'long poems of the 70s' by asking where English poets began to be interested in archaeology and anthropology.
7. Metakaluptical notes on the 1940s: the shared 40s project; or, The neo-Romantic Agony.
Notes on a large number of writers involved in the Neo-Romantic movement. Supplement to the work on the 1940s in 'Origins of the Underground'.
6. Eric Mottram, 'Peace Projects 4'
commentary on a poem by Eric Mottram, to follow up discussion on his interest in Henry Corbin, which I expounded as a connection between him and the ‘anti-modern‘ poet Kathleen Raine. ’PP4’ incorporates a prose narrative by Sohravardi as discussed by Corbin.
5. Accident Adventure, or: shopping list - the sequel...
I published a 'shopping list' of good books of British poetry published around 1960 to 1997. This is a follow-up which adds information I didn't have then. 350 titles? who could ask for more.
4. Affluence project: central ethos
description of 'Affluence Welfare and Fine Words', a 7-volume project on British poetry 1960-97.
3. Council of heresy (2)
extra material on ‘The Council of Heresy’, a book on poetry
2. Origins of the Underground
bibliographical essay explaining the background to Origins of the Underground, a book on poetry and the links between the 1940s and the 1960s
1. 'The council of heresy'
essay on sources for this 2009 book
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