This book is a pioneering attempt to roll back misrepresentation and depersonalisation and recover one of the most highachieving eras of British poetry. The 70s saw the collapse of the postwar settlement amid apparently insoluble problems over inflation and profitability. Consensus broke down and a lot of things that people remember about the 1970s didnt actually happen. The outcome for poetry was a radical attempt to write down ideas about a different society and personal lifestyle, but also a polarised climate in which one faction tried to erase others from the record. Rightwing historians like to write about the period as an error in which all trajectories led inevitably to the rise of Thatcherism and that rise corrected the error. But it is equally valid to be fascinated by the other social possibilities and to appreciate art for its imaginary paths that were not followed. Is it not true that the 70s saw styles of good poetry (maybe bad poetry too?) which have been lost to memory ever since?? The role of the implicit was destabilised in the 70s, and we are trying to recover what was shared but unstated. A list of 100 long poems suggests the direction that poetry went in, and that the idea of extension and exploration was to mend social memory and restore a shared language. Right and Left felt equally threatened and in need of reciting ideological primal scenes. Most of the text is about the long poems, following them as they attempt to reframe seizedup arguments. A...

Binding: Paperback;326 pages; Publisher: Shearsman Books Limited; Classification: N/A; Weight: 600.81 g; Dimensions: N/A

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