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Beyond the home counties.(New British Poetry)(Book review)
New British Poetry, edited by Don Paterson and Charles Simic; Graywolf Press, 2005, $33.95.
IT IS REMARKABLE how little attention poets and poetry readers throughout the English-speaking world pay to the poetry of English-speaking countries other than their own. Most of us look back with gratitude and appreciation to that pantheon of British and American poets who dominated the first half of the twentieth century (Frost, Eliot, Stevens, Auden, Pound, Williams et al) but few of us bother to check out what's happening right now in other countries where they speak our language. And, of course, our own major poets of the mid-twentieth century are substantially ...
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