There's consensus for you, and something reassuring.
The same day that my little piece on Postmodern Play appears, Todd Swift at Eyewear is saying something very similar, http://toddswift.blogspot.com/ 'Snowing on Raine', Jan 14,
Paul Muldoon's poem of 1994, "Incantata", is arguably the most influential mid-length poem written in Ireland and the UK in the last two decades - and perhaps the finest, too. It has certainly had a huge impact on a certain sort of longish, clever, playful, sinuous, syntactically and formally adept poem that Paul Farley, John Stammers, Don Paterson and Roddy Lumsden (to name a few of the best mainstream poets writing after Muldoon) like to write.
It is disappointing to see he got there a couple of hours before I did and I should have rushed to the web sooner, but some minds, whether or not great, think alike.
David Green
- David Green (Books) is the imprint under which I published booklets of my own poems. The original allocation of ISBN numbers is used up now, though. The 'Collected Poems' are now available as a pdf. The website is now what it has become, often more about music than books and not so often about poems. It will be about whatever suggests itself.
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Sunday, 16 January 2011
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