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rhyme) to the analytical (quotation

With Deer [Hos rådjur] was Berg’s first full-length book of poetry

Browne offers here the mimesis of the possible

‘has occurred to someone sufficiently abstract as to allow us to romp gainfully

political and racial turmoil

The Letters of Douglas Oliver and J.H. Prynne, 1967-2000 Primary Information rhyme) to the analytical (quotationed. Joe Luna Douglas Oliver (19372000) and J. H. Prynne (b. 1936) are two of the most original and ambitious poets of the contemporary era. Eschewing the conservativism of mainstream postwar British verse and embracing influences from America and Europe, each developed their craft through continuous correspondence and exchange as part of the febrile scene of poetical community and contestation that emerged in Cambridge in the 1960s. Their works over