Poetry and Performance During the British Poetry Revival 1960–1980

Juha Virtanen is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at the University of Kent. His writing on English and American poetry has appeared in Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, Shearsman Review, the edited collection News from Afar, and elsewhere. His own poetry publications include Back Channel Apraxia (2014) and –LAND (2016).

• 1 Introduction.- 2 Be kind to this place: Allen Ginsberg and the First International Poetry Incarnation.- 3 This blank space from which I speak: Denise Riley at the Cambridge Poetry Festival, April 15th 1977.- 4  Memories arrested in space: Eric Mottram’s Pollock Record.- 5 You are invited to perform: Process, mutation and participation in Allen Fisher’s Blood Bone Brain.- 6 Epilogue: Syntheses and further movements .- 7 Appendix A – An Interview with Allen Fisher.-8 Appendix B – An Interview with Denise Riley.