Conductors of Chaos: A Poetry Anthology

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Conductors of Chaos: A Poetry Anthology is a poetry anthology edited by Iain Sinclair, and published in 1996 by Picador. In a backhanded piece of self-justification, Sinclair in the Introduction wrote that

"The secret history of ... 'the British Poetry Revival' ... is as arcane a field of study as the heresies and schisms of the early Church."

In fact the selection includes both a number of 'Revival' poets, and a few figures chosen as 'precursors', with some deliberate scheme of comment on the contemporary as well as the retrospection involving the 1960s and 1970s.

[edit] Poets in Conductors of Chaos: A Poetry Anthology

Caroline Bergvall - Brian Catling - Cris Cheek - Kelvin Corcoran - Andrew Crozier - J. F. Hendry - Andrew Duncan - Allen Fisher - Bill Griffiths - Alan Halsey - Lee Harwood - Michael Haslam - Stewart Home - John James - Grace Lake - Tony Lopez - W. S. Graham - Barry MacSweeney - Rod Mengham - Drew Milne - David Jones - Geraldine Monk - Douglas Oliver - Maggie O'Sullivan - Out to Lunch (Ben Watson) - Ian Patterson - J. H. Prynne - Jeremy Reed - David Gascoyne - Denise Riley - Peter Riley - Nicholas Moore - Stephen Rodefer - Chris Torrance - John Wilkinson - Aaron Williamson