Poetry has never been so rigorous and diverse, nor has its audience
been so numerous and engaged. Strong words? Not if the poets are
right. As Ezra Pound wrote: 'You would think anyone wanting to know
about poetry would go to someone who knew something about it.'
That's exactly what Bloodaxe has done with this judicious and
comprehensive selection of British, Irish and American manifestos
by some of modern poetry's finest practitioners. Opening the 20th
century account with Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot, the
book moves through key later figures including W.H. Auden, Ted
Hughes, Stevie Smith and Dylan Thomas. America is richly
represented too, from Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams to
the influential New England poets Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop
and Sylvia Plath. Strong Words then brings the issues fully up to
date with over 30 specially commissioned statements from
contemporary writers including Seamus Heaney, Andrew Motion, Simon
Armitage, Selima Hill, Paul Muldoon and Douglas Dunn, amounting to
a new overview of the poetry being written at the start of the 21st
century. For poets and readers, for critics, teachers and students
of creative writing and contemporary poetry, this is essential
reading. As well as representing many of the most important poets
of the last hundred years, Strong Words also charts many different
stances and movements, from Modernism to Postmodernism, from
Futurism to the future theories of poetry. This landmark book
champions the continuing dialogue of these voices, past and
present, exploring the strongest form that words can take: the
poem.
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