[New-Poetry] Between two worlds: Michael Hofmann

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Metric conversion: Why poet Michael Hofmann stopped 'wreaking destruction'  
on his family in verse
 
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ion-why-poet-michael-hofmann-stopped-wreaking-destruction-on-his-family-in-ver
se-832527.html_ 
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is-family-in-verse-832527.html) 
 
Michael Hofmann made his name with poems documenting his fraught  
relationship with his German father. But now, 'fed up with wreaking destruction'  in his 
verse, he's forsaken the muse in favour of the day job
 
By Stephen Knight
Sunday, 25 May 2008 
 
Between two worlds: Michael Hofmann, who writes to 'make myself English' ©  
Jonathan Evans
 
It was almost impossible, 25 years or so ago, to open a journal that  
published poetry without finding Michael Hofmann's name somewhere on the  contents 
page. His unmistakable poems were everywhere, so it seemed obvious to  begin by 
asking what had changed, now that new work is so rare. "I don't want to  add 
to any EC poetry mountain," was his drollest answer. There are a number of  
poets who ought to take the same line, but Hofmann – one of the few outstanding  
talents to have emerged in the past 50 years of British poetry – would not be 
on  my list. 
 
 



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