Guardian Reveals ‘Top Ten Poetry of the Noughties’

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Guardian Reveals ‘Top Ten Poetry of the Noughties’

21/12/2009 at 5:29 pm · Filed under Uncategorized and tagged: Caroline Bergvall, christian bok, James Davies, Jeff Hilson, Miles Champion, P. Inman, Peter Manson, Ron Silliman, Tim Atkins, Tom Jenks, Tom Raworth

In its festive merriment and review of the culture of decade The Guardian takes a closer look at what’s been important over the last ten years in the world of poetry.

1. Miles Champion Three Bell Zero
2. Christian Bok Eunoia
3. Tim Atkins Horace
4. Peter Manson Adjunct: A Digest
5. Tom Raworth Collected Poems
6. P. Inman Ad Finitum
7. Ron Silliman The Alphabet
8. Tom Jenks A Priori
9. Caroline Bergvall Fig
10.Jeff Hilson (ed.) The Reality Street Books of Sonnets

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Ron Silliman wrote @ 24/12/2009 at 5:19 am

Do you have a URL for this? Or is this like Charles Bernstein unilaterally awarding me the Pulitzer Prize, a source of confusion that lasted for a month among well-wishers?

theotherroom wrote @ 28/12/2009 at 4:15 pm

Sorry if it’s messed any of your friends about searching for the article. It was posted to raise discussion over the books and the terrible state of newspaper literature sections (not just poetry in the UK).

Yes it is a hoax. I wish it were not; that’s why I posted it just like the Bernstein hoax. The link in the feature takes you to http://www.marcelduchamp.com which I thought was red herring enough to make out this was a joke: a website which doesn’t exist but yet does – A weird paradox with such a title. I do believe in the list tho a hell of a lot although the Guardian would never publish such a thing as it has no notion of contemporary poetry. This article incidentally got connected in our traffic http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/jan/02/noughtiessofarthebook . It makes this Other Room feature even more poignant since I don’t believe in lists but were I to then I had a another load of books up my sleeve, so I’m glad I wrote it.

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