''Conductors of Chaos: A Poetry Anthology'' is a
poetry anthology
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edited by
Iain Sinclair
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, and published in the United Kingdom in 1996 by
Picador
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.
Sinclair in the Introduction wrote that "The secret history of ... 'the
British Poetry Revival
"The British Poetry Revival" is the general name given to a loose poetry movement in Britain that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. The revival was a modernist-inspired reaction to the Movement's more conservative approach to British poetry. T ...
' ... is as arcane a field of study as the heresies and schisms of the early Church."
The selection includes both a number of 'Revival' poets, and a few figures chosen as 'precursors', with some deliberate scheme of comment on the contemporary as well as the retrospection involving the 1960s and 1970s.
Poets in ''Conductors of Chaos: A Poetry Anthology''
See also
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1996 in poetry
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Events
* April – National Poetry Month established by the Academy of American Poets as a way to increase awareness and ap ...
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1996 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1996.
Events
*July 8 – Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird'', Mark Twain's ''Huckleberry Finn'' and 30 other books are struck from an English reading list in Lin ...
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English poetry
This article focuses on poetry from the United Kingdom written in the English language. The article does not cover poetry from other countries where the English language is spoken, including Republican Ireland after December 1922.
The earliest ...
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List of poetry anthologies
This is a list of anthologies of poetry.
A–C
* ''American Poetry Since 1950'', 1993
*'' Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry'', 2001.
*'' Anthology of Modern Serbian Lyric'', 1911.
*''Book of Aneirin'' (c. 1265) Welsh medi ...
References
1996 anthologies
1996 poetry books
British poetry anthologies
British Poetry Revival
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