333. Postcolonial Evolution of Poetry

Alvarez Group of Poets: 20th Century category of Poets like Ted Hughes, Thom Gunn & Geoffrey Hill. Edward Alvarez has been the anthologist of the Alvarez company. They are a new group of The New Poetry of 1962. Sylvia Plath, Peter Porter and John Berryman were included too. Huges and Gunn are the most important in the list.

Martian Group of Poets: These British poets supernaturalise or sensualise, use surprise imagery, defamiliarise or use alien-like descriptions of the common themes in their poetry. 1970s to 80s was the time span they have been runged. Craig Raine, Christopher Reid, Oliver Reynolds and David Sweetman are the Martian poets. They make everyday objects look strange. It started with Craig's publication of a poem "A Martian sends a Postcard Home" gave them the name. For eg, he calls books the 'mechanical birds with many wings.' So, this was an unconventional and unfamiliar way of describing a mundane or common thing like book. This also looks metaphysically conceited.

Pylon Poets: 1930s

The Movement: 1950s British Poets. These poets rejected Modernism, avant garde and neo-romantic poets of 1940s. They were more realistic. J. D. Scott coined the term in 1954 in The Spectator. Philip Larkin, Donald Davie, D. J. Enright, John Wain, Robert Conquest and Kingsley Amis. Larkin's Church Going and The Whitsun Weddings are highly regarded poems. Their poetry was down to earth, real based, rational, clear, empirical and argumentative.

The Hobsbaum Group or The Group was formed by Philip Hobsbaum in the late 1950s and early 1960s while reacting to The Movement Poets. They emphasized on urban experiences, working class lives, public readings, workshopping poems, etc. Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, Edward Lucie-Smith, Peter Redgrove, George MacBeth and Peter Porter belong to this group. Heaney's Bog Poems are very important. Their influence was mainly in Northern Ireland.

Satanic School of Poetry was coined by Robert Southey. He criticised Byron and P. B. Shelley's poetry.

Black Mountain Poets It is an American school of Poets which is associated with multi cultural and multi ethnic identities.  Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov and Ed Dorn belonged to this group. It is named after the Black Mountain College. These are part of cultural assertion movements. "Projective Verse" of Olson is based on breath. It focuses on the processes of writing over the final product. Natural speech patterns are given more focus. 
 

MacSpondee Poets:


T. S. Eliot:




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