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When Bad Times Made for Good Poetry: Episodes in the History of the Poetics of Innovation (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for When Bad Times Made for Good PoetryA dozen essays on some of the most influential poets of the British post-1960 avant-garde: Tom Raworth, Allen Fisher, John Hall, Maggie O'Sullivan, Iain Sinclair, Ken Edwards, and Bob Cobbing, together with reflections on the mid-70s Poetry Society coup and counter-coup.
Full description- Publisher: Shearsman Books
- Published: 15 February 2011
- Format: Paperback 226 pages
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- Categories: Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets | Literary Studies: From C 1900 - | Poetry By Individual Poets
- ISBN 13: 9781848611368 ISBN 10: 1848611366
- Sales rank: 879,352
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Full description for When Bad Times Made for Good Poetry
This study presents an episodic history of an epic period in British poetry, when bad times forced political subversion and textual impaction upon its central figures and provisional institutions. In the episodes which cover the Poetry Wars of the 1970s; the centrality of Bob Cobbing as poetry activist and the SubVoicive poetry scene in 1980s London; and the cultural poetics of Iain Sinclair in the 1990s and since; the focus is upon poetic community rather than individuals.
