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1971-1977. 8vo then (from vol. 66 no. 1) 4to. Wrappers. 56pp.-210pp. All twenty numbers of Mottram's 'Poetry Review', with four numbers published per volume (and three issues being double issues). (Vol. 62 no. 4 and vol. 63 no. 4 are incorrectly numbered on the title page and spine respectively, as issued.) Central to the British Poetry Revival, the 'Review' as edited by Mottram was also central to a six-year battle at the National Poetry Society, best documented and analysed by Peter Barry in 'Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court'. Barry (writing in 2005) summarises: 'A small group of "radical" or "experimental" poets took over the Poetry Society, one of the most conservative of British cultural institutions, and for a period of six years, from 1971 to 1977, its journal, "Poetry Review", was the most startling poetry magazine in the country. Some revered it, others reviled it, but nobody in the 70s who was seriously interested in poetry could ignore it. Then, in the summer of 1977, it was over, almost as suddenly as it had begun.' He continues: 'the conflict at the Poetry Society was a key moment in the history of contemporary British Poetry, polarizing the rift between the "neo-modernists", who sought to continue the 1960s revival of the early twentieth-century's "modernist revolution", and the neo-conservatives, who sought to further the "anti-modernist counter-revolution" of the 1950s. Echoes of this conflict continue to reverberate today, and the deposed radicals of the 1970s were effectively written out of the record of contemporary British poetry, and have only recently been restored.' A study of the conflict, and of Mottram's 'Poetry Review', is 'a case study of the inevitable frictions and tactical struggles between an avant-garde and a "mainstream".' Contributors include Lee Harwood, Bob Cobbing, Dom Silvester Houedard, Allen Fisher, Bill Griffiths, Robert Duncan, Muriel Rukeyser, Basil Bunting, Roy Fisher, Gael Turnbull, Jeff Nuttall, Iain Sinclair, Chris Torrance, Bill Butler, Gilbert Sorrentino, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Piero Heliczer, Tom Raworth, Ulli McCarthy, Stuart Montgomery, Paul Evans, Barry MacSweeney, Elaine Feinstein, Tom Pickard, Pierre Joris, Richard Miller, Elaine Randell, Thomas Meyer, Jonathan Williams, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Thomas A Clark, Harry Guest, Kris Hemensley, Jeremy Hilton, F. T. Prince, Robert Kelly, Jerome Rothenberg, Paul Buck, David Antin, Armand Schwerner, Theodore Enslin, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Cid Corman, Denise Levertov, John Wieners, Paul Matthews, William Sherman, Peter Finch, Ann Lauterbach, Penelope Shuttle, Colin Simms, Allen DeLoach, Jack Hirschman, John Keys, Paul Gogarty, Nathaniel Tarn, Clayton Eshleman, Ed Dorn and Gordon Brotherston, Michael Horovitz, Aram Saroyan, Ron Padgett, Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, Harry Mathews, Lyn Lifshin, Lucebert, Anne Waldman, Diane Wakoski, Anselm Hollo, David Chaloner, Christopher Middleton, Ken Smith, Peter Riley, Paul Selby, Peter Redgrove, Jim Burns, Adrian Clarke, Barbara Guest, Lewis MacAdams, Ray DiPalma, James Koller, Joel Oppenheimer, Bruce McClelland, George Quasha, Peter Schjeldahl, George Oppen, B.Catling, Jeremy Adler, John Furnival, Peter Mayer, Sean O'Huigin, Lawrence Upton, Jennifer Pike, Paula Claire, Herbert Burke, Opal L. Nations, Paul Brown, John Giorno, Jackson Mac Low, Ken Irby, Carl Rakosi, Jack Micheline, Mark Hyatt, John Welch, Anthony Barnett, Robert Vas Dias, Carol Berge, John Taggart, Stefan Themerson, Patrick Fetherston, Andrei Codrescu, John Hall, Andrew Crozier, John James, Ralph Hawkins, Phil Maillard, Michael Gibbs, Tom Leonard, Carlyle Reedy, Paul Green, Martin Thom, Mike Dobbie, Val Torrance, and Ed Sanders. Some spotting primarily to the edges, generally moderate rubbing and soiling to the wrappers, the wear sometimes a little more pronounced, with vol. 67 nos. 1/2 faded unevenly, a small number of basic annotations to the. Seller Inventory # 005785
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