Conductors of Chaos: A Poetry Anthology
Conductors of Chaos: A Poetry Anthology is a poetry anthology edited by Iain Sinclair, and published in 1996 by Picador. In a backhanded piece of self-justification, Sinclair in the Introduction wrote that
"The secret history of ... 'the British Poetry Revival' ... is as arcane a field of study as the heresies and schisms of the early Church."
In fact 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
Caroline Bergvall – Brian Catling – Cris Cheek – Kelvin Corcoran – Andrew Crozier – J. F. Hendry – Andrew Duncan – Allen Fisher – Bill Griffiths – Alan Halsey – Lee Harwood – Michael Haslam – Stewart Home – John James – Grace Lake – Tony Lopez – W. S. Graham – Barry MacSweeney – Rod Mengham – Drew Milne – David Jones – Geraldine Monk – Douglas Oliver – Maggie O'Sullivan – Out to Lunch – Ian Patterson – J. H. Prynne – Jeremy Reed – David Gascoyne – Denise Riley – Peter Riley – Nicholas Moore – Stephen Rodefer – Chris Torrance – John Wilkinson – Aaron Williamson
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