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Index: Dossier: Eric Mottram

Eric Mottram’s Radical Poetics Seminars.

Hilson & McGarty: ‘The ‘nineties were seen by many mainstream commentators as a kind of Golden Age following the end of the Cold War and the supposed victory of liberal Capitalism. Eric, of course, saw through this as shallow.’

Five previously unpublished poems by Eric Mottram.

Simon Collings: Selected from a group of unpublished poems in the Eric Mottram archive at King’s College London.

Dark Times and Utopias in the Work of Eric Mottram.

Clive Bush: ‘Mottram’s abiding love of the poetry of the French poet, René Char, also gave him a sense of how the Second World War had transformed the world, a sense close to Orwell’s 1984.’

A Notebook of Materials Made under Stress.

Simon Collings: ‘Mottram’s life and work have been celebrated in recent years in a series of conferences held at King’s College London, where he taught.’

Kent Journal.

Eric Mottram: Between January 3 and April 1 1974 I went to America for the sixth time. On my way to holding classes at Kent State University…’