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	English poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		All the major poets of the period, Samuel Butler, John Dryden, Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson, and the Irish poet Jonathan Swift, wrote satirical verse.
		Among the foremost of these poets were T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, both of whom spent part, and in Eliot's case a considerable part, of their writing lives in England.
		The poets who began to emerge in the 1930s had two things in common; they had all been born too late to have any real experience of the pre-World War I world and they grew up in a period of social, economic and political turmoil.
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	Liverpool poets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The emergence of the Liverpool poets as pioneers of "pop poetry" in the UK engendered hostility from the literary establishment.
		The Liverpool poets were a strong influence on the late 1970s Kent group The Medway Poets (some of whom later founded the Stuckists art group), and were also involved in reading with them.
		Poet Christopher T. George was born in Liverpool in 1948, and lives in America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liverpool_poets (1235 words)

	BBC News \| ENTERTAINMENT \| Poet Adrian Henri dies
		Poet and painter Adrian Henri, who was part of the Liverpool literary scene in the 1960s, has died after a long illness aged 68.
		They were compared with the American beat poets and writers, such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, of a decade earlier.
		Henri was the oldest of the three poets and the one of the trio who remained in Liverpool.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/1081108.stm (482 words)

	Liverpool
		Liverpool is a city in the metropolitan county of Merseyside in north west England, on the north side of the Mersey estuary.
		There are three tunnels under the River Mersey: one railway tunnel, and two road tunnels, Queensway Tunnel and Kingsway Tunnel.
		There is also the Mersey Ferry, made famous by the song Ferry Cross the Mersey by Gerry and the Pacemakers.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/li/Liverpool.html (916 words)

	Lumsden Excerpts from The Message
		Poets, on the other hand, dream of selling 5,000 copies of a Selected Poems and reaching that elite group who can squeeze an annual five-figure sum out of their writing.
		Of the mainstream poets who give their work by heart, Ruth Padel folds her hands behind her back and serenades the chandelier while Michael Donaghy (generally acknowledged as the best reader of poetry there is) is a veritable nest of tics and gestures.
		Other poets bob, glare, chew, toss their hair, flirt with the audience, heckle themselves, juggle papers, fiddle with their zips, buttons or (you know who you are!) abstractedly ping their knicker elastic.
	www.poetrysociety.org.uk /places/lumsden.htm (1307 words)

	Poets
		The only poet of the group still alive at the unveiling in 1985 of the stone in Westminster Abbey was Robert Graves, who died later that same year.
		A Georgian poet, friend of Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Nichols (1893-1944) served for a short time at the front (including the Battle of the Somme) as an artillery officer, then was invalided home suffering from shell-shock.
		In the running with Wilfred Owen for the title of greatest of the Great War poets, Isaac Rosenberg is distinguished from the other war poets by the fact that he was both Jewish (as was Siegfried Sassoon) and an enlisted man (as was Ivor Gurney and David Jones).
	www.lib.byu.edu /~english/WWI/poets/poets.html (3364 words)

	Amazon.ca: Liverpool Accents: 7 Poets and a City: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Rather, it is an opportunity for seven poets – all with a biographical link to the city – of different ages and affiliations to introduce their poetry.
		The poets represented have all been shaped by hearing the Liverpool accents; they have been influenced by the city’s history, culture and spirit.
		The poets are Elaine Feinstein, Adrian Henri, Grevel Lindop, Jamie McKendrick, Deryn Rees-Jones, Peter Robinson and Matt Simpson.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0853236712 (400 words)

	poetrymagazines.org.uk - Interview with Ian Duhig
		J.R. ‘Double Vision’ in The Mersey Goldfish is a retake on one of Michael Longley’s poems.
		On one occasion I met Richard Luce, English Minister for the Arts at the time, and his idea of conversation was to tell me that his son had written poetry all through his youth and early manhood and not felt able to tell his father.
		That doesn’t begin to answer the question but I would note that assumptions can’t be made that the new generation of poets, North and South, are better than their British equivalents.
	www.poetrymagazines.org.uk /magazine/record.asp?id=12263 (2056 words)

	Poetry Bay - Online Poetry Magazine
		The rhythm is in the blood and the blood of Liverpool is the River Mersey.
		The rocking riverbeat of the Mersey that swarms tidally past the City twice a day from the Irish Sea has been both a giver and sender of news, music, poetry and laughter to the rest of the world.
		Three Liverpool Poets who were feted like pop stars and who are now, although Adrian Henri died a couple of years ago, still highly regarded are Brian Patten and Roger McGough who frequently perform in the UK and abroad.
	www.poetrybay.com /Summer2005/Green.htm (317 words)

	The Poetry Kit Interviews - Jim Bennett
		The whole Mersey Poets thing was a loose association of poets and musicians who where caught up in the pop revolution that hit Liverpool in the late 1950's and exploded onto the world stage with the coming of The Beatles in '62.
		The core of the Mersey poets is seen to be Roger McGough, Adrian Henri and Brian Paten who where picked up for a poetry anthology published by Penguin in 1967 and which was very successful in terms of its sales.
		I also think it is good to see poets who have grown up with the influence of strong rhythms and punch of hip-hop, producing their own strongly rhythmical and rhymed poetry.
	www.poetrykit.org /iv00/bennett.htm (3957 words)

	All-Info About Poetry - Adrian Henri (1932-2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The poet and artist, Adrian Maurice Henri, played a major role in the Liverpool literary scene during the 1960s before his death in 2000 at the age of 68.
		He was often compared with the American beat poets and writers of the 1950s, such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.
		He was the oldest of the three Mersey beat poets and the only one of the trio who remained in Liverpool.
	poetry.allinfo-about.com /features/adrian-henri.html (509 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Obituary: Adrian Henri
		But it was as a communicator, in the broadest sense of the word, that he made his greatest impact, both on those around him and on the cultural scene generally.
		Alongside that of the other so-called Liverpool poets, this resulted in the Liverpool Scene anthology, edited by Edward Lucie-Smith, then (with Roger McGough and Brian Patten) the Penguin Modern Poets' Mersey Sound, which remains one of the best-selling poetry collections of all time.
		Adrian's poems were very much those of a painter; he wrote what he saw, as much as what he felt, though what he described was often expressed with such passion that even the most simplistic listings of people or places were lit with an emotional glow.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/poetry/story/0,6000,414819,00.html (1087 words)

	bestsellers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The tone of both poets is one of patriotic gallantry, which involves-given the personnel on His Majesty's men-of-war-lower-class characters, and also physical realism in narrative form.
		Masefield, and that whole group of proletarian and realist poets, such as Wilfred Gibson, stole a march on the twentieth century by writing about non-middle class subjects, but were left high and dry by the advance of the century.
		In the 1950s, the Fantasy Press series of pamphlets had actually as part of their sales literature that all the poets were associated with either Oxford or Cambridge universities: at the time this was seen as a guarantee of the highness and preciousness of the poems.
	www.pinko.org /42.html (4279 words)

	Ian Duhig
		It is, to my mind, a common feature of the Desperado poets, but, of course, each has his own path.
		The Irish poets who started publishing after the 60s made a big impression on me and I find quite a lot of poetry does translate well, even its humour – I laughed loud and long at Sorescu’s man with a halberd.
		Women poets are more generous with their biography on the page.
	lidiavianu.scriptmania.com /ian_duhig.htm (2854 words)

	Discussion Forum: Major Television Documentary on the Merse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bill Harry, who coined the phrase Mersey Beat' and launched a newspaper of that name, is excited that at last the true story of that unique musical scene will be told with a degree of accuracy not previously attempted by documentary makers.
		A Mersey Beat website has already been launched on www.mersey-beat.com, Mersey Beat memorabilia has now been officially licensed and includes replica issues of the original newspaper, a Mersey Beat book is being prepared and even a Mersey Beat comic is in development.
		He recently compiled the CDs Mersey Beat' and The Best of the Fourmost' for EMI Gold, and says a shoal of original Mersey Beat music is set for release by EMI and other major record companies.
	www.petebest.com /forum/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=9&TopicID=577&PagePosition=1 (451 words)

	WhatGoesOn.com - Major television documentary on the Mersey Beat story
		Mirage Films are making a 90-minute documentary, "The Mersey Beat Files," centered on the musical phenomenon that arose in Liverpool in the early Sixties and made a huge impact around the world with the Beatles and other Mersey groups.
		Bill Harry, who coined the phrase "Mersey Beat" and launched a newspaper of that name, is excited that at last the true story of that unique musical scene will be told with a degree of accuracy not previously attempted by documentary makers.
		A Mersey Beat website has already been launched on www.mersey-beat.com, Mersey Beat memorabilia has now been officially licensed and includes replica issues of the original newspaper, a Mersey Beat book is being prepared and even a Mersey Beat comic is in development.
	www.whatgoeson.com /story.20050705.html (367 words)

	Stylus Poetry Journal
		It is interesting that there has been a positive response to verse novels or poets writing novels in recent years, as opposed to anthologies, and numerous poets have been funded at state and federal level.
		But my influences came from the Mersey poets and the work of ee cummings.
		And of course, protest poets and songwriters of the 60's and 70's.
	www.styluspoetryjournal.com /main/master.asp?id=235 (898 words)

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		The journal will also contemplate those literary figures - from Shakespeare to Blake and the Romantic poets, Rimbaud and the Symbolist poets to Joyce, Orwell and Greene to Nelson Algren and John Dos Passos, Anthony Burgess and Joseph Heller to Hubert Selby, Jr and J.G.Ballard - who have inspired popular musicians to react and respond.
		Poet, novelist, folk performer, rock artist with Serpent Power and editor of Reading Jazz and Writing Jazz., he teaches humanities at the New College of California, San Francisco.
		Professor of English at the University of Iowa and co-editor of Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture and Mapping the Beat, he is also a widely published poet in print and online.
	www.popmatters.com /chapter/about.html (697 words)

	Roger McGough - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Roger McGough is a popular contemporary British poet who spent time as a pop singer during the 1960s with a band known as the Scaffold.
		He and the group went to the top of the charts with the singles "Thank U Very Much" and "Lily the Pink." By 1967 his work was included in -The Mersey Sound, a volume of modern poetry that was published by Penguin and also included works by..
		McGough's poems appear on the recordings Grimms, Fresh Liver, and the Argo release British Modern Poets, which was issued in 1974.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,466005,00.html (324 words)

	Brian Patten
		Their main aim was to make poetry immediate and accessible for their audience, and their joint anthology, The Mersey Sound (1967), has been credited as the most significant anthology of the twentieth century for its success in bringing poetry to new audiences.
		His life story as one of the three Liverpool poets is told by Phil Bowen in A Gallery To Play To: the story of The Mersey Poets (Stride: 1999), and a critical study of his work, Brian Patten, was published by Northcote House in 1997.
		Brian Patten is a popular poet and performer, equally successful in his parallel career as a children's author.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth03C11L021212635163 (1947 words)

	Sixties City - The Story of Mersey Beat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Presented here, in his own words, is the definitive story of one of the Sixties' seminal music newspapers - providing a fascinating and unique personal insight into the early days of the 'British Beat Boom' and the events, personalities, facts and legend surrounding the birth of the greatest musical revolution the world has ever known.
		The topic of conversation was that Royston was copying the San Francisco poets rather than composing works in the British tradition.
		We felt that any creative person should really base their work on their own experiences rather than copying someone else’s and the discussion led us to decide to work creatively on what we knew best — and that was life in Liverpool.
	www.sixtiescity.co.uk /Mbeat/mb1.htm (782 words)

	Original Sin: On the Importance of Creative Killing - Frank Tallis
		Wilson observed that killers and artists feel set apart from the common herd, confess to 'drives and tensions' that alienate them from society, and have the courage to satisfy these drives (often defying society in the process).
		The underlying suggestion here is that artists and murderers might draw their energies from the same source.
		A corollary of this is that many of our distinguished poets are also keen amateur murderers - something that isn't that hard to believe when you consider what a promising start they've already made on the English language.
	www.crimetime.co.uk /features/franktallis.php (1596 words)

	Poet: Fred Camenisch - All poems of Fred Camenisch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Poet: Fred Camenisch - All poems of Fred Camenisch
		The Airport won the prestigious Fred Camenisch Award for its outstanding contribution towards tourism on Merseyside at the 2002 Mersey Tourism Awards held...
		At the recent Mersey Tourism Awards dinner, Liverpool John Lennon Airport won the coveted 'Fred Camenisch Award' for its outstanding contribution towards...
	www.poemhunter.com /fred-camenisch/poet-4256 (230 words)

	The Cholmondeley Awards for Poets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Given to four poets, the awards (£8,000 in 1999) were endowed by the late Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966.
		They are made on the strength of a poet's body of work and submissions are not accepted.
		Liz Lochhead is a poet and playwright living in Glasgow.
	www.literature-awards.com /cholmondeley_awards.htm (680 words)

	Nerve Articles - Issue 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Brian Patten is arguably one of the UK's finest love poets; he is also now one of the top children's writers in the UK.
		Furthermore, with the publication in 1996 of his book 'Armada' he also became, for many, a working class hero, with his relevant, touching portrait of the struggle, turmoil and humour of working class life.
		Maybe that is Brian's point; he does not aim to appeal to 'the poetry elite', instead he touches the lives of many people who would not ordinarily read poetry.
	www.catalystmedia.org.uk /issues/nerve5/articles/brian_patten.htm (1609 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Mersey Sound: Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		'The Mersey Sound is an attempt to introduce contemporary poetry to the general reader by publishing representative work by each of three modern poets in a single volume, in each case the selection has been made to illustrate the poet's characteristics in style and form'.
		With this modest brief, The Mersey Sound was conceived and first published in 1967.
		These poets were much more than mirrors for the times they lived in, but they analyzed and simplified dozens of subjects, from Batman to the bomb, all in the beautifully wacky poetry they put in this book.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140585346 (518 words)

	Open2.net Forums
		It reminds me of the work of Mersey poets such as Roger McGough and Adrian Henri.
		I would recommend another poem he wrote which is a parody of Kipling's "If" which I think is far cleverer and has more to say, but of course I can't remember the title, nor can I track it down among my piles of poetry at the moment.
		Any poet worth anything has a range but this poem rather leaves Zephaniah open to dismissal as a superficial slick versifier.
	www.open2.net /forum/post!reply.jspa?messageID=26821 (383 words)

	Rhymes and reason for poetry boom
		Yet the survey found that the general public had a problem with the image of poetry, which was "often perceived as out-of-touch, gloomy, irrelevant, effeminate, high-brow and elitist".
		And that was just Wordsworth and Shakespeare, the only two "old-fashioned, pre-20th-century" poets most people could recall - followed in popularity by the war poets, Owen, Sassoon and Graves.
		Contemporary poets that people, when pressed, could remember included Spike Milligan, Pam Ayres, Roger McGough, Brian Patten and the Mersey poets.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1996/06/28/npoet28.html (784 words)

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