Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court

by Peter Barry

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Poetry Wars is an account of the six-year battle at the National Poetry Society during the 1970s when this highly conservative institution and its journal Poetry Review were taken over by radical poets. The story is told from primary sources, including the Arts Council's Records at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Eric Mottram Archive at King's College London, and the Barry MacSweeney Collection at Newcastle University, and from contemporary newspaper accounts.

The story has never been made public before in documentary detail, though brief reference is often made to it in accounts of contemporary poetry, and anecdotes...

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  • ISBN10 6610950156
  • ISBN13 9786610950157
  • Publish Date 1 January 2006
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 18 May 2011
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Salt Publishing
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 276
  • Language English