[Lecture on contemporary poetry at the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo, May 2, 1979] / Eric Mottram.

Recorded at Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo on May 2, 1979 by the Poetry Collection on two 60 minute Scotch sound cassettes.

Poet Eric Mottram lectures on contemporary British and American poets and recalls the importance of the Morden Tower poetry readings. Mottram lectures about contempory British and American poets, including: Basil Bunting, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Ed Dorn, Tom Pickard. Mottram discusses the importance of poetry readings and little magazine publication of new British poets. Mottram also celebrates Bob Cobbing's work with the Writer's Forum. University at Buffalo professor William Sylvester asks Mottram questions at the end of the lecture.

Eric Mottram.

The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries. Digital conversion was made possible through a 2009 National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

1979

Sound recording

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