About Poems and how poems are not about: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures

Seven lectures by leading UK/US poet tracing the theories, fashions, and beliefs of modern poets in American and Britain since the 1930s. Giving special attention to the voices of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and Wallace Stevens, she argues that populist movements in the US rose up against a university based establishment after World War II, introducing barbarian energy into the art while at the same time destroying its solid base in traditional rhythm and form.