Obsequy For Lost Things consists of three prose-poetry sequences.
The first two share the setting of the Thames estuary. They all
share, however, like the author's previous collection of
prose-poetry sequences (from Skylight Press) Interlocutors of
Paradise, and his The Hoplite Journals, a concern with history and
the psychology of colonialism. As such they also confront, in "the
defeat of colonialism", what Martin Jacques called "the most
important event of the 20thC". An event, involving the attempt to
brutally resist it, which coming-of-age British poets in the 1960s
didn't confront, and which A. Alvarez in his essay in his
influential anthology The New Poetry (1962) didn't deem worthy of
inclusion alongside other manifestations of "Evil": nuclear war and
the Nazi holocaust. If British poets today, however, are to acquire
what he termed "a new seriousness, a willingness to face the full
range of [their] experience with [their] full intelligence" then
they need to avoid what Alvarez called "easy exits" and to redress
such an omission.
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