[New-Poetry] 100 Poets You Should Know

[TheOldMole]

Geoffrey Hill

Andrew Motion

from the sublime to the ridiculous, but it starts the list.

jforjames at aol.com wrote:
> Bob, the International list I suggested should try to avoid personal 
> taste and sensibility, and try, as much as possible, to step back
> and to survey what poets, for whatever reason, seem to be gathering 
> the most attention in our times.  
> That being said, I don't think this 'visible set' is always mutually 
> exclusive form the set of poets that really will
> stand up over time. A net of hundred or so will surely have in it a 
> few keepers.
>
> For example, UK-centric, I'd put J.H.Prynne and Geoffrey Hill on my 
> list of the International 100.
> Finnegan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>
> Bcc: jforjames at aol.com
> Sent: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 7:29 pm
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] 100 Poets You Should Know
>
> Jim, are you asking for 100 international poets a poet ought to make 
> sure he knows (as in a physicist should know algebra), or about 100 
> international poets a poet is likely to have heard of (as in you 
> should know where Port Charlotte Middle School if you live on the 
> corner of Hayworth and Midway--since it's less than a hundred yards 
> from there)? There is a huge difference between the two. Your previous 
> list had so few poets I think any poet ought to make sure he knows 
> that I was sure you had to mean the latter. And you have been 
> emphasizing visibility rather than quality, for the most part. 
>  
> --Bob 
>  
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