Each of these sections is also available as a separate page with comment on, and often quotations from, the sites – click on the section headings. What may be the most informative texts for the reader fresh to all this are those earlier in each list, particularly those marked with an asterisk *.
Do bear in mind, that though I have tried to select sites that offer clear and explicit comment, history and analysis, discussion of poetry can rapidly get very technical and detailed, particularly when performed by academics or poets. A further problem with some sites is that they were often aimed at an audience of those involved already in this poetic culture, and are therefore assuming knowledge by the reader.
This list was last checked and added to May 25, 2008.
- * Tim Love, Poetry and Society in the UK
- * Ken Edwards, Introduction: The two poetries
- * Peter Middleton, The Poetry Review Essay: Recognition (Poetry Review, Vol 94 No 1, Spring 2004)
- * moderated by Catherine Wagner, Post-Marginal Positions: Women and the UK Experimental/Avant-Garde Poetry Community A Cross-Atlantic Forum
- Peter Finch, British Poetry Since 1945
- The origins and trajectories of English avant garde poetry in the last 40 years: A dialogue between Peter Riley and Spilios Argyropoulos
- John Matthias, British Poetry at Y2K
- Alan Halsey, An Open Letter to Will Rowe
- Tim Love, The formalist/free avant-garde/mainstream UK/US splits
- Andrew Duncan, legends 5: An era of rising property prices: Conservative poetry
- * Matthew Caley, Aspects of the Contemporary (ii): Neo-hogbutchererbigdriftities: tracing a line out of the mainstream
- * Will Rowe, Invisible Power
- * Ian Davidson, Ideas of Space in Contemporary Poetry — click on "Read a sample chapter"
- Andrew Duncan, Missing Bandwidths
- Tim Love, The Avant-garde and Language poetry
- Andrew Duncan, Chaotic Dynamics: Conductors of Chaos, edited by Iain Sinclair
- Andrew Duncan, Kicking Shit with Arvel Watson and C.Day Lewis: part 2 of the review of Conductors of Chaos
- William Watkin, Poetry Machines: Repetition in the Early Poetry of Kenneth Koch
- Peter Riley in conversation with Todd Nathan Thorpe
- Reginald Shepherd, Defining "Post-Avant-Garde" Poetry
- * Robert Potts, Through the oval window — on JH Prynne
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Douglas Oliver: Radial Symposium
- *
Peter Riley Symposium
- * Andrea Brady Interview by Andrew Duncan
- * Andrew Duncan, Melting Into Nature: Carrier of the Seed by Jeffrey Side
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Michael S. Begnal, Polar/ cold/ marks terminus — on Trevor Joyce
- David Caddy: So Here We Are — essays on David Caddy's blog on Bill Griffiths, Thomas A Clark and Allen Fisher.
- Paul A. Green, Lost in the City: Ken Edwards, Nostalgia for Unknown Cities
- Laurie Duggan, On Gael Turnbull’s Collected Poems: with a digression on his aleatory, kinetic and other off-the-page practices
- Rod Mengham and John Kinsella, An Introduction to the Poetry of J H Prynne
- Robert Bond, Babylon Afterburn: Adventures in Iain Sinclair’s «The Firewall»
- Some fragments about Allen Fisher’s work: A collage of responses assembled by
AF, May 2004
- * Robert Sheppard, A History of the Other — this material is a series of blog entries, a little cumbersome to locate and navigate in order. The link here is to the analysis of these sections on the more detailed Great Works webpage.
- * British Poetry Revival (Wikipedia)
- * Ken Edwards, UK Small Press Publishing Since 1960: The Transatlantic Axis
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Piers Hugill, An overview of contemporary British poetry since 1977
- Peter Finch, Sound Poetry: Sound Poetry in the UK
- Richard Caddel and Peter Quartermain, "A Fair Field Full of Folk": Other British and Irish Poetry since 1970
- Sam Ladkin and Robin Purves, An Introduction to Chicago Review, British Poetry Issue (53:1)
- Peter Riley, An Endnote
- Andrew Duncan, legends 6: Sound as a volume; or, real space as fictive space
- Andrew Duncan, legends 7: Avant garde neo-classicism
- Andrew Duncan, Groups and Boundaries: The Field of Poetry Around 1995
- Andrew Duncan, Such that commonly each: A Various Art and the Cambridge Leisure Centre
- Robert Sheppard, Poets Behaving Badly (review of Peter Barry, Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court [Salt, 2006])
- Alan Brownjohn, Poetry Wars (review of Peter Barry, Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court [Salt, 2006])
- A C Evans, Voices in Denial: Poetry and Post-Culture
- Andrew Duncan, A Reply (to Voices in Denial)
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