Douglas Oliver (1937–2000) and J. H. Prynne (b. 1936) are two of the most original and ambitious poets of the contemporary era. Eschewing the conservativism of mainstream postwar British verse and embracing influences from America and Europe, each ...

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Poetry. "What was the shock like reading T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land when it was published in 1922. I think I know. I've just read Douglas Oliver's epoch-making long poem, Penniless Politics. I never thought I would ever read anything like it in the...

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