Reviews for Breakthrough: poetry in Britain during the 1960's

The average rating for Breakthrough: poetry in Britain during the 1960's based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-10-13 00:00:00 Joffre Edder Gilces loor Though ultimately using a colloquial tone, these poets elevate the common language to extraordinary heights. The anthology has a good mixture of themes with poems on subjects such as the slave trade, Che Guevara, love, contemplation of mortality, and the relation of the poet to the geographic world he inhabits. The personal poems in this collection do not exhibit the common confessional tropes of Americans during this time period, and many of the poets have a unique approach to the personal lyric. A few of the poems are in the magical realist genre, which I admire. The poets in the anthology comprise an array of voices, and nearly all of the poems in the anthology are worth reading.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-01-03 00:00:00 Audrey Harrison I read a good portion of this book in a poetry class in college. I really loved all that i read and there are a lot I missed so I'm going to do my best to read it all. This book is definitely worth doing so.