Note: what follows are some very rough notes on late modernist poetry I have been working on periodically over the last few weeks. The ideas here are probably very much reliant on the work of Andrew Duncan, who is a brilliant poet critic of British poetry. I hope there are at least some rewarding insights here for anyone who dares to delve into my very knotty and sloppy prose. Introduction This is going to be quite a raw and quick guide to late-modernist poetry, with a view to answering two questions: what is the importance of this poetry? and what can it do in this era of political and social crises? This work started out as notes I was making for a possible online discussion, hence why it may appear sloppy and hurried in places, but as it turned out to be a fairly lengthy piece I thought I would publish it as a 2 part guide. The contemporary poetry scene is really interesting: Claire Pollard, Sean Bonney, Mellissa Lee-Houghton, Emily Critch...
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