Poets on Writing: Britain, 1970–1991

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Uttering Poetry: Small-Press Publication....Pages 9-20
Grasping the Plural....Pages 21-29
You Can’t Get There from Here....Pages 30-40
Writing and Not Writing....Pages 41-49
Two Poems....Pages 50-51
The State of Poetry Today....Pages 52-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
From ‘Unconscious/Unfolding/Voice: a Statement’ (1973)....Pages 57-60
The Particularity of Poetry....Pages 61-66
Two Poems....Pages 67-69
The Subject of Poems....Pages 70-80
Two Poems....Pages 81-82
What Are You Going to Call It?....Pages 83-84
Moving Buildings....Pages 85-89
Subsequent Looping....Pages 90-91
The Creative Moment of the Poem....Pages 92-113
John Clare’s Mountain....Pages 114-117
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Three Poems....Pages 121-123
A Curve of Reading....Pages 124-134
Objects That Come Alive at Night....Pages 135-139
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Three Poems....Pages 140-144
Dream and Restoration....Pages 145-150
Two Poems....Pages 151-153
Imperfect Pitch....Pages 154-172
Sometimes a Word will Start it....Pages 173-177
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
The Poet as Ethnographer....Pages 181-201
From ‘Pages from “La Tempesta”’....Pages 202-206
About Filibustering in Samsāra....Pages 207-208
After Filibustering in....Pages 209-215
An Introduction to Veronica Forrest-Thomson’s Work....Pages 216-221
From Poetic Artifice....Pages 222-233
‘the medium itself, rabbit by proxy’: some thoughts about reading J.H. Prynne....Pages 234-246
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
A Theory of Poetry....Pages 249-252
A Period of Gestation....Pages 253-259
Working Processes of a Woman Poet....Pages 260-271
Poet on Writing....Pages 272-275
Three Lilies....Pages 276-281
Back Matter....Pages 282-292