English Advance Access originally published online on June 25, 2009
English 2009 58(222):192-198; doi:10.1093/english/efp020
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A Preview of The Ground Aslant: Radical Landscape Poetry (Forthcoming, Shearsman Books, 2010)
Correspondence: * Correspondence to Harriet Tarlo, Sheffield Hallam University.
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In our discussion of this forthcoming anthology, both Tony Frazer, of Shearsman Books, and myself felt it to be a timely volume. The landscape poetry that has appeared in recent years has been particularly original and stimulating in its writing around place/people/locality and the relationship between human and non-human beings. It is perhaps surprising, on such a small island, that I should have found it hard to narrow down my selection of innovative landscape poetry to sixteen poets. Seven poems from six of these are featured here, chosen to represent the diversity of form, technique and indeed landscape that characterizes the The Ground Aslant.1 In the anthology itself, we present a range of work from the poets' published and unpublished works; here I have focused on recent, largely unpublished, work.
It is not of course that there has been no landscape writing within the modernist tradition. Many of these