New British Poetry.(Book Review)

From: Poetry | Date: June 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

New British Poetry, ed. by Don Paterson & Charles Simic. Graywolf Press. $16.00.

Is "British poetry"--and the question of the "Britishness" of this poetry is, as we'll see, a vexed and vexing one--American poetry's land of unlikeness? (And might the converse also be the case, with American poetry weirdly mirroring and perhaps distorting the lineaments of British verse?) Certainly the editors of New British Poetry are firm in their belief that until quite recently the verses produced by Anglophone poets on both sides of the Atlantic have evolved along such different lines as ...

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