Poets on Writing: Britain, 1970–1991 PDF
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In the same series Language, Discourse, Society General Editors: Stephen Heath, Colin MacCabe and Denise Riley Published Titles Stanley Aronowitz THE CRISIS IN HISTORICAL MATERIALlSM SCIENCE AS POWER: Discourse and Ideology in Modern Society John Barrell THE BIRTH OF PANDORA AND OTHER ESSAYS Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen THE FREUDIAN SUBJECT Norman Bryson VISION AND PAINTING: The Logic of the Gaze Lesley Caldwell ITALIAN FAMILY MATIERS: Women, Politics and Legal Reform Teresa de Lauretis ALICE DOESN'T: Feminism, Semiotics and Cinema TECHNOLOGIES OF GENDER: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction Teresa de Lauretis (editor) FEMINIST STUDIES/CRITICAL STUDIES Mary Ann Doane THE DESIRE TO DESIRE: The Woman's Film of the 1940s Alan Durant CONDITIONS OF MUSIC Jane Gallop FEMINISM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: The Daughter's Seduction Peter Gidal UNDERSTANDING BECKETT: A Study of Monologue and Gesture in the Works of Samuel Beckett Peter Goodrich LEGAL DISCOURSE: Studies in Linguistics, Rhetoric and Legal Analysis Piers Gray MARGINAL MEN: Edward Thomas; Ivor Gurney; J R Ackerley Paul Hirst ON LAW AND IDEOLOGY fan Hunter CULTURE AND GOVERNMENT: The Emergence of Literary Education fan Hunter/David Saunders and Dugald Williamson ON PORNOGRAPHY: Literature, Sexuality and Obscenity Law Andreas Huyssen AFTER THE GREAT DIVIDE: Modernism, Mass Culture and Postmodernism Nigel Leask THE POLITICS OF IMAGINATION IN COLERIDGE'S CRITICAL THOUGHT Michael Lynn-George EPOS: Word, Narrative and the Iliad Colin MacCabe JAMES JOYCE AND THE REVOLUTION OF THE WORD BROKEN ENGLISH Colin MacCabe (editor) THE TALKING CURE: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Language Louis Marin PORTRAIT OF THE KING Christian Metz PSYCHOANALY SIS AND CINEMA: The Imaginary Signifier Jean-Claude Milner FOR THE LOVE OF LANGUAGE Jeffrey Minson GENEALOGIES OF MORALS: Nietzsehe, Foucault, Donzelot and the Eccentricity of Ethics Angela Moorjani THE AESTHETICS OF LOSS AND LESSNESS Laura Mulvey VISUAL AND OTHER PLEASURES Douglas Oliver POETRY AND NARRATIVE IN PERFORMANCE Michel Pecheux LANGUAGE, SEMANTICS AND IDEOLOGY Jean-Michel RabaU LANGUAGE, SEXUALITY AND IDEOLOGY IN EZRA POUND'S CANTOS Denise Riley AM I THAT NAME?: Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History POETS ON WRITING: Britain 1970-1991 Jacqueline Rose THE CASE OF PETER PAN or THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF CHILDREN'S FICTION Brian Rotman SIGNIFYING NOTHING: The Semiotics of Zero Michael Ryan POLITICS AND CULTURE: Working Hypotheses for a Post- Revolutionary Society Raymond Tallis NOT SAUSSURE: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory David Trotter CIRCULAT ION: Defoe, Dickens and the Economics of the Novel THE MAKING OF THE READER: Language and Subjectivity in Modern American, English and lrish Poetry Jean-Marie Vincentjtranslated by James Cohen ABSTRACT LABOUR: A Critique Cornel West THE AMERICAN EVASION OF PHILOSOPHY Peter Womack IMPROVEMENT AND ROMANCE: Constructing the Myth of the Highlands Poets on Writing Britain, 1970-1991 Edited by Denise RiIey Editorial matter and selection © Denise Riley 1992 Contributors © their contributions (see contents list) 1992 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No poem or paragraph in this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London WIP 9HE. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published 1992 Published by MACMILLAN ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL LID Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world Transferred to digital printing 2002 ISBN 978-0-333-47130-2 ISBN 978-1-349-22048-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-22048-9 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Contents Acknowledgements x Introduction 1 Denise Riley PART I: THE CONDITIONS OF WRITING 1 Uttering Poetry: Small-Press Publication 9 Nigel Wheale 2 Grasping the Plural 21 Ken Edwards 3 You Can't Get There from Here 30 Nick Totton 4 Writing and Not Writing 41 lohn Hall 5 Two Poems 50 Grace Lake 6 The State of Poetry Today (from 'Etemal Sections') 52 Tom Raworth PART II: WHAT THE WORK IS 7 From 'Unconscious/Unfolding/Voice: aStatement' 09~ ~ Martin Harrison 8 The Particularity of Poetry 61 Martin Harrison 9 TwoPoems 67 Martin Harrison 10 The Subject of Poems 70 Michael Haslam 11 Two Poems 81 lohn Riley vii viii Contents 12 What Are You Going To Call It? 83 lohn Riley 13 Moving Buildings 85 Anthony Barnett 14 Subsequent Looping 90 Allen Fisher 15 The Creative Moment of the Poem 92 Peter Riley 16 John Clare's Mountain 114 Wendy Mulford PART III: READINGS AND BEGINNINGS 17 Three Poems 121 Mark Hyatt 18 A Curve of Reading 124 Nigel Wheale 19 Objects That Come Alive At Night 135 Geoffrey Ward 20 Three Poems 140 Geoffrey Ward 21 Dream and Restoration 145 lohn Welch 22 Two Poems 151 lohn Welch 23 Imperfect Pitch 154 lohn Wilkinson 24 'Sometimes a Word will Start it' 173 Kelvin Corcoran PART IV: PARTICULAR STUDIES 25 The Poet as Ethnographer 181 Martin Thom 26 From 'Pages from liLa Tempesta'" 202 Tom Lowenstein Contents ix 27 About Filibustering in Sarnsiira 207 Torn Lowenstein 28 After Filibustering in Sarnsiira 209 Torn Lowenstein 29 An Introduction to Veronica Forrest-Thomson's Work 216 Martin Harrison 30 From Poetic Artifice 222 Veronica Forrest-Thornson 31 'the medium itself, rabbit by proxy': some thoughts about reading J. H. Prynne 234 fan Patterson PART V: WAYS OF WORKING 32 A Theory of Poetry 249 John Jarnes 33 APeriod of Gestation 253 Ralph Hawkins 34 Working Processes of a Woman Poet 260 Carlyle Reedy 35 Poet on Writing 272 Roy Fisher 36 Three Lilies 276 Douglas Oliver Bibliography: the Contributors 282 Acknowledgements I am deeply grateful to the contributors for their generosity, their patience and their tolerance; and I hope that they will be happy with this product of their individual efforts, and this introduction to their work. To Nigel Wheale I owe a special debt of thanks for his help with the final stages of the compilation and for his practical interest and encouragement throughout the years of its gathering. Responsibility for editorial shortcomings is mine. The editor and the publishers wish to thank the following who have kindly given permission for the use of copyright material. Anthony Barnett for the poem 'Moving Buildings', from The Resting Bell (Collected Poems) (London, Lewes, Berkeley: Allardyce, Barnett, 1987). Jonathan Culler and Manchester University Press on behalf of the Executors of the Estate of Veronica Forrest-Thomson, for the extracts from Poetic Arti[ice; A Theory o[ Twentieth-Century Poetry (Manches ter: Manchester University Press, 1978). Martin Harrison for the poem 'Verandah with Owls Calling through Water', originally published in Meanjin,49 / 4 (Melbourne, Australia: 1990). The executors of the Estate of Mark Hyatt and Infernal Methods Press, Cambridge, for the poems originally published in A Different Mercy (Cambridge: Infernal Methods, 1974). John James for A Theory o[ Poetry (originally published by Street Editions, Cambridge, 1977). Tom Lowenstein for extracts from 'Pages [rom La Tempesta' (origi nally published by The Many Press, London, 1980); reprinted in Filibustering in Samsära (London: The Many Press, 1987); and for Filibustering in Samsära : A Footnote (Cambridge: Poetical Histories, 11, 1990). x
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