Poems prof2
Charles Cantalupo
Nigel Wheale
Peter Middleton
Robert Hampson
John Goodby
John Kinsella
Peter Hughes
Steve Harris
David Rees
Christopher Barnes
Peter Manson
Karlien van den Beukel
Rob MacKenzie
Daniel Lane
Vittoria Vaughan
Barry MacSweeney
Prose about Poetry
Early history of Socialist poetry socearly
Socialist poetry of the 1930s, Charles Madge soc30s
Poetry and the Modern Left socmode
Socialist poetry of the 1960s: Prynne, John James, David Chaloner soc60s
Socialist poetry of the 1950s: John Arden, Christopher Logue *soc50s*
Socialist poetry of the 1970s: Tony Lopez soc70s
Socialist poetry of the 1980s: Adrian Clarke and WN Herbert soc80s
Great Socialist pop records *socbones*
Karlien van den Beukel on Sheet Mettle socmilne
Interview with Roger Langley intlangley
Farewell to Yannis Ritsos ritsos
A bill of turns Christopher Barnes made the difficult transition from punk to Northern Soulie and lives in Newcastle. Karlien van den Beukel is at Cambridge doing research into Vorticism. Her poems are in 5 poets (Coypu). Charles Cantalupo from New York, lives in Pennsylvania. 'Stay' is from a five-poem cycle, Columba, the Dove, of which two parts are in the book, Anima/l Wo/man and Other Spirits, out soon from Spectacular Diseases. poems in Talisman, Object Permanence, and Intimacy. Andrew Duncan poems recently in Oasis, shearsman, Parataxis, Odyssey, Salt, and Terrible Work. engaged in large-scale research project on modern British poetry John Goodby comes from Birmingham and lives in Swansea. some poems are in Before the Flood and Faber Poetry Introduction 8. Robert Hampson teaches at the Royal Holloway College. Has published a feast of friends, a human measure, unicorns: 7 studies in velocity, and now Seaport (Pushtika). New British poetries: the scope of the possible, edited with Peter Barry, is now out in paperback. Steve Harris born in Hastings and lives nearby. Poems in magazines from Echo Room to Terrible Work. Works in the construction industry, is now putting together a volume of poetry. Michael Haslam lives in Hebden Bridge. A Whole Bauble (Carcanet 1995) is a kind of collected poems. Maggie Helwig Canadian poet living in London. Peter Hughes lives in Cambridge. works include Psyche in the Gargano; the complete Paul Klee's Diary is out now from Equipage John Kinsella comes from Western Australia. Edits Salt. Books include Syzygy and Full Fathom Five; new ones are Erratum and Selected Poems. Daniel Lane is doing post-graduate research at Exeter. R.F. Langley Twelve Poems was published by infernal methods in 1994. A new poem is in PN Review 107. Rob MacKenzie has published Kirk Interiors (Ankle) and now The Tune Kilmarnock (Form Books). A book, Off Ardglas, is expected late 96. Is researching in Cambridge into holes in the ozone layer. Barry MacSweeney comes from Newcastle, where he lives. Has published many books, amply selected in the tempers of hazard (Paladin). This did not excerpt Ranter and Black Torch. Most recent are Hellhound Memos and Pearl (Equipage). These poems are from The Book of Demons. Peter Manson lives in Glasgow and co-edits Object Permanence. Has published iter ature (Writers Forum), computer visuals. poems and visual work in AND, Generator, Mirage #4, Parataxis, South fields, Terrible Work. Peter Middleton teaches at the University of Southampton. poems recently in Fragmente and Pages. David Rees painter and poet. Some poems in Grille. Vittoria Vaughan has had work in many magazines. The Mummery Preserver is announced from Odyssey. Bobby Walker writes poetry. Some was in Equofinality 3. Nigel Wheale comes from Wolverhampton and lives in Cambridge. Most recent publication is Phrasing the Light (Many Press). John Wilkinson lives in Kent. Recent poetry books include Flung Clear and Chalone.
Errata
Further research indicates that Joseph Macleod's book is Script from Norway, not Letter from Norway, as stated in the last issue. Another book has been discovered: The Passage of the Torch, 1951. Uncollected poems can be found in Scottish anthologies such as Honour'd Shade, and magazines such as Poetry Scotland. At the recent Goldmark evening at London's Albert Hall, the famous romantic novelist Malcolm Moorhen introduced Denise Riley as 'someone I've never heard of'. Mr Moorhen is the author of The Naked Lunch, The World of Null-A, and The Doctor Who and the Daleks Annual. Intensive detailed research has revealed that Tony Lopez published a full-length book as long ago as 1976, so our statement in Twelve was erroneous. Ian Robinson writes to tell us that he published a book of Lopez's in 1973. A full Eric Mottram bibliography was published in The Journal of Comparative Poietics in 1989. Ian Robinson tells me that Eric did not resign from the editorship of Poetry Review, but came to the end of a 20-issue contract. The English section of the Exact Change Year Book was edited by Peter Gizzi not Tom Raworth.
failures of readers
Keith Jebb's review of the issue in Poetry Review attacked us for giving perfunctory treatment to feminism and for not writing about any women poets. These problems fit inside a larger problem, not remarked on by Jebb, that the issue doesn't take on the Modern Left because we are inside it, find it impossible to get a perspective on, and dedicate most of every issue to it anyway. The omission of feminism was a consequence of jettisoning analysis of the whole period since 1960. I was writing a piece on Poetry and the Modern Left, but there wasn't time to write it in a few months before Thirteen was due, so I gave up. However, I include the draft in this Internet-only version... I do have this feeling that there aren't any significant Left women poets up until 1970 and the revival of the Women's Liberation Movement, conventionally dated to the weekend of a certain conference at Ruskin College, Oxford. I could be wrong, but this fact anyway exposes the need for a women's liberation movement. So we missed the opportunity to write about poets linked to that movement, such as Denise Riley, Wendy Mulford, Maggie O'Sullivan, Grace Lake, Michele Roberts, Alison Fell, Elizabeth Bartlett... There were 20 pages about Riley and O'Sullivan in AE Twelve, though, and reviews of Lake's work were due to appear in Fourteen and Fifteen. The makeup of the issue was largely due to what reviewers felt interested in, and what books chanced to come out in a certain time window, roughly 1994-5. I don't feel that feminism is a good title for an essay about poetry, because it suggests that the writers are slanted: once you tell the truth, your account may have all kinds of consequences, but to define someone as committed puts a slur on the quality of their evidence. The poets who interest me are critical realists, they aren't tendentious writers. I did plan to do an issue of AE called Love, sex, and romance, but the concept offers irreducible difficulties. You can't write about modern love poetry without having a conceptual model of feminist poetics, and you can't identify how modern poetry writes about love, and the critique of what love is available, in transformed ways, without having a conceptual model of modernist aesthetics. One could solve all three problems at once, but only with a huge input of time. It's easier writing reviews.
Peter Riley's catalogue of small press poetry claims we are Poetry Review. What does it mean?
Jebb expressed surprise that I didn't like Adrian Mitchell, so the Internet version includes a comment on why Mitchell is so tedious. He couldn't understand why I praised Christopher Logue, to which I can only retort, Read his poems!