Unfading Memories
The Jaguar Shoes post is quite long now, so we have located two longer memories in this new post, like this. Adrian Clarke wrote to us to say this. - In the period covered by the anthology there was much discussion of a Cambridge/London divide. Its existence seems to have been forgotten or dismissed since, perhaps as a result of the increasing visibility of other areas of activity, or the non-partisan tendencies of some of the poets who were supposedly in one way or another responsible. ... And yet it did have a place for the geographers of alternative poetries for some time, though it might be hard to assemble a selection of texts that would clearly illustrate the distinctive features. Perhaps it was a matter of different levels of extraversion rather than aesthetic incompatibility. I recall a day of readings from poets published by Rod Mengham’s Equipage and Ulli Freer’s Microbrigade in Cambridge in 199? The “London” poets stood and in some manner performed; the “...